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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> | You could run <code>setup-apkrepos</code> again. | ||
The following script shows the closest mirror for a single ping, which might not be accurate: | The following script shows the closest mirror for a single ping, which might not be accurate: | ||
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{{Cat|/home/user/fastestmirror|<nowiki> | {{Cat|/home/user/fastestmirror|<nowiki> | ||
data="" | data="" | ||
for s in $(wget -qO- | for s in $(wget -qO- https://mirrors.alpinelinux.org/mirrors.txt); do | ||
t=$(time -f "%E" wget -q $s/MIRRORS.txt -O /dev/null 2>&1) | t=$(time -f "%E" wget -q $s/MIRRORS.txt -O /dev/null 2>&1) | ||
echo "$s was $t" | echo "$s was $t" | ||
Latest revision as of 10:39, 4 November 2025
After you install Alpine, you may be wondering how do I figure out the fastest mirror again?
You could run 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 $(wget -qO- https://mirrors.alpinelinux.org/mirrors.txt); do
t=$(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