Filtered out 'bad' mirrors. Also added a sorting mechanism that uses …

…the mirrors 'score' rather than just the URL name. This will emulate the reflector.service/rankmirrors behavior and thus reducing the need to re-rank the mirrors.

archinstall/lib/mirrors.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 from .networking import fetch_data_from_url
 from .output import warn, FormattedOutput
 from .storage import storage
-from .models.mirrors import MirrorStatusListV3
+from .models.mirrors import MirrorStatusListV3, MirrorStatusEntryV3
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
 	_: Any
@@ -282,23 +282,43 @@ def select_custom_mirror(prompt: str = '', preset: List[CustomMirror] = []):
 	return custom_mirrors
 
 
-def _parse_mirror_list(mirrorlist: str) -> Dict[str, List[str]]:
+def sort_mirror_list(mirror_list :List[MirrorStatusEntryV3], sorting_element :str = "url") -> List[MirrorStatusEntryV3]:
+	return sorted(mirror_list, key=lambda item: getattr(item, sorting_element))
+
+
+def _parse_mirror_list(mirrorlist: str, sorting_element :str = "url") -> Dict[str, List[str]]:
 	mirror_status = MirrorStatusListV3(**json.loads(mirrorlist))
 
-	mirror_list: Dict[str, List[str]] = {}
+	sorting_placeholder: Dict[str, List[MirrorStatusEntryV3]] = {}
 
 	for mirror in mirror_status.urls:
+		# We filter out mirrors that have bad criteria values
+		if any([
+			mirror.active is False, # Disabled by mirror-list admins
+			mirror.last_sync is None, # Has not synced recently
+			# mirror.score (error rate) over time reported from backend: https://github.com/archlinux/archweb/blob/31333d3516c91db9a2f2d12260bd61656c011fd1/mirrors/utils.py#L111C22-L111C66
+			(mirror.score is None or mirror.score >= 100),
+		]):
+			continue
+
+		if mirror.country == "":
+			# TODO: This should be removed once RFC!29 is merged and completed
+			# Until then, there are mirrors which lacks data in the backend
+			# and there is no way of knowing where they're located.
+			# So we have to assume world-wide
+			mirror.country = "Worldwide"
+
 		if mirror.url.startswith('http'):
-			if mirror.country == "":
-				# TODO: This should be removed once RFC!29 is merged and completed
-				# Until then, there are mirrors which lacks data in the backend
-				# and there is no way of knowing where they're located.
-				# So we have to assume world-wide
-				mirror.country = "Worldwide"
+			sorting_placeholder.setdefault(mirror.country, []).append(mirror)
 
-			mirror_list.setdefault(mirror.country, []).append(mirror.url)
+	sorted_by_element: Dict[str, List[str]] = dict({
+		region: [
+			mirror.url for mirror in sort_mirror_list(unsorted_mirrors, sorting_element=sorting_element)
+		]
+		for region, unsorted_mirrors in sorted(sorting_placeholder.items(), key=lambda item: item[0])
+	})
 
-	return mirror_list
+	return sorted_by_element
 
 
 def list_mirrors() -> Dict[str, List[str]]:
@@ -315,9 +335,4 @@ def list_mirrors() -> Dict[str, List[str]]:
 			warn(f'Could not fetch an active mirror-list: {err}')
 			return regions
 
-	regions = _parse_mirror_list(mirrorlist)
-	sorted_regions = {}
-	for region, urls in regions.items():
-		sorted_regions[region] = sorted(urls, reverse=True)
-
-	return sorted_regions
+	return _parse_mirror_list(mirrorlist, sorting_element="score")