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How do you select your pacman mirrors? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 10 months ago by driveway@lemmy.zip to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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Arch wiki page on reflector states that:

Make sure the resulting /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist does not contain entries that you consider untrustworthy before syncing or updating with pacman.

The question is, how should I know if a mirror is trustworthy or not?

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well, mine is the university five minutes from my neighborhood, and I basically know the people who run it. So it's pretty obvious to me, personally. I just picked that one manually and deleted all the others (kept a few that were closest to me geographically, but commented-out, as backup if something were to go wrong).

[–] driveway@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm just using the kernel.org mirror for now but I should look into unis too. Good idea.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I hope you find one that works for you! 😊👍

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Same here, I don't know the people but I just use my local uni's computer science club cause I just think it's endearing lol