Mirrors

Officially unofficial mirrors for various GNU/Linux package repositories. Hosted in Nairobi, Kenya. Born out of personal/institutional necessity, offered to the community. When traffic is local (ie using KENET, Jamii, Zuku, etc) the speeds are several orders of magnitude faster than mirrors in the US, Europe, etc.

Faster updates, less international traffic, and giving something back to the community—everybody wins!

Arch Linux

Add the following to the top of your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist:

Server = https://hpc.ilri.cgiar.org/mirror/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

CentOS

Use https://hpc.ilri.cgiar.org/mirror in your /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo, ie:

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
baseurl=https://hpc.ilri.cgiar.org/mirror/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-$releasever

Alternatively, download this CentOS-Base.repo.

EPEL

EPEL 6 & 7 are also available. Use https://hpc.ilri.cgiar.org/mirror in your /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo, ie:

[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch
baseurl=https://hpc.ilri.cgiar.org/mirror/epel/6/$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6

Alternatively, download this epel-6.repo for EPEL 6 or epel-7.repo for EPEL 7.