Discrepancy between pacman-mirrors -i and https://repo.manjaro.org/?

[johntdavis84]

Hello,

I ran pacman -i on a brand new Manjaro ARM (Raspberry Pi 4b) Minimal install, as I wanted to select just one mirror for use. I got the results below. A couple of questions:

1. When using the -i option (interactive mode), is there a way to get it not to show me partially sync’d mirrors?
2. Is there a way to filter the initial list to a specific country? I assume -c United States?

Thanks!

[linux-aarhus]

pacman-mirrors only shows up-to-date mirrors for the system branch - check the man page for detailed info (Pacman-mirrors - Manjaro)

man pacman-mirrors

Yes you can set a country, a list of countries or you can use a continent

sudo pacman-mirrors --continent

pacman-mirrors uses the same status file as the repo web

The mirrors are sorted by response time - and the sync indicates how long time has elapsed since the last sync - the info is pulled from the status file.

https://repo.manjaro.org/status.json

If you want to verify that - you can use the –no-status argument and may get a longer list.

[Fabby]

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[johntdavis84]

Oops.

Sorry, will be more mindful of this in the future.

Thanks for the info on pacman-mirrors.

[Fabby]

I’ve marked this answer as the solution to your question as it is by far the best answer you’ll get.

Discrepancy between pacman-mirrors -i and https://repo.manjaro.org/?

pacman-mirrors only shows up-to-date mirrors for the system branch - check the man page for detailed info (Pacman-mirrors - Manjaro) man pacman-mirrors Yes you can set a country, a list of countries or you can use a continent sudo pacman-mirrors --continent pacman-mirrors uses the same status file as the repo web The mirrors are sorted by response time - and the sync indicates how long time has elapsed since the last sync - the info is pulled from the status file. https://repo.manjaro.org/…

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