[TO TEST OUT] rate-arch-mirrors: client-side map-aware tool

[westandskif]

Hello everyone!

I've built an alternative to Reflector, which:
- knows something about internet infrastructure (submarine cables and at least numbers of internet exchanges per country)
- doesn't spend eternity on trying to load a file of a fixed size from a half-dead mirror
- knows when the speed has stabilized and is able to stop a speed test
- tests concurrently during the phase #1, where dirty checks occur
- re-tests top N mirrors - phase #2
- is ok to run before each system update.

Links:
- https://github.com/westandskif/rate-arch-mirrors
- AUR rate-arch-mirrors-bin - pre-built binary with statically linked musl
- AUR rate-arch-mirrors - needs rust, dynamically links glibc

This is an example of output: github gist

Any feedback is much appreciated!

[erikdubois]

Well I have a question

Can we have a switch (might be there already) to just write (-w) the result to /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist?
Having a config file somewhere is most of the time very helpful to read and adjust all the options.

[erikdubois]

We created an alias to test it out.

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sudo pacman -S rate-arch-mirrors-bin

alias mirrorr="rate-arch-mirrors | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist"

[westandskif]

Hi!
Thank you very much for recording the video on this!

Can we have a switch (might be there already) to just write (-w) the result to /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist?
Having a config file somewhere is most of the time very helpful to read and adjust all the options.

Sure, I'll add ``--save`` option and let you guys know - https://github.com/westandskif/rate-arc ... s/issues/2