[pacman-mirrors] 4.19.1 - updates and fixes

Updates and fixes

pacman-mirrors was rebuilt to match the Python 3.9 release/update.

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With that rebuild several changes - not previously released - has been made.

The most prominent is probably the ability to supply countries to use by using - almost - any mix of upper/lower case characters and the possibility to use the country code instead of the full country name.

pacman-mirrors still requires you to spell the countries or country codes right but as everything is compared using lower case and country code - you can do - almost - as you like.

If you use duplicates in the country argument - they will be removed.

The experimental async argument is dead - it was no good anyway.

Some fixes and changes has been related to the ARM architecture.

For at complete list of changes please refer to the changelog

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Perhaps that changelog.md title should be: [4.19] 2020-12-02.

Typo fixed

good subject “Proposal to improve the mirror list to get the faster server.” with archlinux reflector

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Especially this comment which reflects what we have known for a while :slight_smile:

And this comment by @xyne is spot on and I couldn’t say it better.


The file can be changed in pacman-mirrors.conf

pacman-mirrors is using core.db as measurement - would it make sense to change that?

Maybe allowing to change the repo used?