On 3/21/21 5:57 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 21/3/21 11:45 pm, Eli Schwartz wrote: >> On 3/21/21 9:39 AM, Marco Rubin via pacman-dev wrote: >>> Hello, I'd like to propose a change to pacman, but I don't know if >>> someone is already working on it for the next release. I think it >>> would be useful if pacman could hold the first working mirror when >>> downloading updates. Yesterday I was upgrading all my packages and, >>> for some reason, the first five mirrors timed out after a few >>> seconds, so every time pacman was downloading a package, it checked >>> all the mirrors from the beginning until it found one where to grab >>> the updated package. I had many old packages so this process quickly >>> became a little frustrating, and to me it would have been faster if >>> it remembered the first working mirror instead of checking all of >>> them every time. >> >> >> Can you try out the 6.0.0 alpha release? >> http://allanmcrae.com/2020/12/pacman-6-0-0alpha1/ >> > > I think this was more asking to drop mirrors that are failing, like the > patch Andrew recently submitted. The 6.0 alpha pacman will just start > many downloads at once and hide this delay (somewhat).
That's good too, but given the question seemed to be mostly about perceived delay I figured an answer that goes quite a long way toward solving it today would probably be useful. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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