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After you install Alpine, you may be wondering how do I figure out the fastest mirror again?
After you install Alpine, you may be wondering how do I figure out the fastest mirror again?
You could run <code>/sbin/setup-apkrepos</code> again.
The following script shows the closest mirror for a single ping, which might not be accurate:


{{Cat|/home/user/fastestmirror|<nowiki>
{{Cat|/home/user/fastestmirror|<nowiki>
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echo -e $data | sort
echo -e $data | sort
</nowiki>}}
</nowiki>}}
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Revision as of 07:09, 10 January 2023

After you install Alpine, you may be wondering how do I figure out the fastest mirror again?

You could run /sbin/setup-apkrepos again.

The following script shows the closest mirror for a single ping, which might not be accurate:

Contents of /home/user/fastestmirror

data="" for s in $(wget -qO- http://rsync.alpinelinux.org/alpine/MIRRORS.txt); do t=$(time -f "%E" wget -q $s/MIRRORS.txt -O /dev/null 2>&1) echo "$s was $t" data="$data$t $s\n" done echo "===RESULTS===" echo -e $data | sort