# Rank download mirrors before pacstrap — WITHOUT reflector (not on the ISO). # Pull a Germany/HTTPS list from Arch's official mirrorlist generator, already # ordered by mirror status/score, and activate it. Only needs curl (on the ISO) # and hits archlinux.org's CDN, so it doesn't depend on the slow current mirror. # pacstrap copies this list into the installed system, so it speeds up the base # install AND every later pacman run. Falls back to the shipped list on failure. url='https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist/?country=DE&protocol=https&ip_version=4&use_mirror_status=on' tmp="$(mktemp)" if curl -fsS --max-time 20 "$url" -o "$tmp" && grep -q '^#Server' "$tmp"; then cp -f /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.bak 2>/dev/null || true sed 's/^#Server/Server/' "$tmp" > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist info "mirrorlist → Germany/https, $(grep -c '^Server' /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist) mirrors (status-ranked)" else info "could not fetch DE mirrorlist — keeping the ISO's list" fi rm -f "$tmp"