Suggestion: Run reflector before install
The default mirrors (at least for me) are painfully slow. I've been getting around this by just manually running reflector before opening the installer.
Running reflector on the latest 25 mirrors should just be a default Behavior before running installation to make sure it's running at a decent speed
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the mirror can be changed from
system.yaml
the default is https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
which should point to your closest mirrorClosest != fastest is the problem. These are file downloads we don't care about latency. A lot of other distributions will run reflector before they start the install process for exactly that reason
I'm aware that it can be changed manually I'm just suggesting that it should be done automatically before the system is installed, pretty typical on a lot of distributions these days
yes
we figured this would work for most but I suppose no?
after updates the edited mirrorlist would go away
so you'd have to run reflector each update
At least not for me, I've been installing it quite a bit recently as I'm testing if I want to deploy these at work so I've been installing it on a lot of different networks and when I forget to manually run reflector I always end up with a painfully slow download
Yeah that's what I've been doing, but it really should just be integrated as part of the install/update process which is why I tagged both install and update
noted, if you want you can make this an akshara issue
I'll try to make a suggestion ticket when I can:AFoxy_Noted: