Updates: Geofencing and local need to restrict endeavouros-mirrorlist

[dalto]

@julia-n

I don’t think that the update eos mirrors and ranking should be highly coupled with the sudo pacman -Syu and yay -Syu workflows: mirrors should be independent and optional, as a separate mirror maintenance workflow. (This doesn’t mean there can’t be a separate simple validity check of the mirrors before the update workflows are called.)

That is how it is by default. Personally, I only rank my mirrors 1-2 times per year.

@julia-n

I like to update the mirrors much less frequently, and find when there is a high frequency of re-ranking (even in the matter of a few hours, the ranks change up and down radically, and I won’t even use half the provided mirrors anyway). It seems somewhat silly to rerank so frequently, especially since there is about a 50/50 chance that one or more of the mirrors will timeout, adding a lot of unnecessary time to the sudo pacman -Syu operation. That, and all it is doing is writing an endeavouros-mirrorlist.pacnew over and over, on each machine I run. I won’t even use these pacnew files, as I fetch, review, and edit my own endeavourous-mirrorlist, once, and I fan out the same result to each target machine.

The hook only runs when the mirrorlist package changes. Basically, when we add or remove mirrors.

@julia-n

at the very least, there should be an option to skip this entirely,

You can skip it entirely. pacman/alpm has this functionality built-in. You can inhibit the hook by putting an empty file or a symlink to /dev/null at /etc/pacman.d/hooks/eos-rankmirrors.hook

Alternatively, you can uninstall the package eos-rankmirrors and pick a mirror manually.