1.6 KiB
1.6 KiB
update-mirrors
This is a simple utility for archlinux that keeps the mirror list up-to-date.
Whenever the pacman-mirrorlist updates it's always a pain to have to pick out which servers exactly you want. And the archlinux project provides a nice Pacman Mirrorlist Generator. This utility uses that generator to automatically update the mirror list every time pacman-mirrorlist is updated.
Installation
I've provided a PKGBUILD through which it can be installed:
makepkg -sic
It will install the executable, configuration file, and pacman hook into the proper locations so that after it will always be called automatically.
Configuration
There are a few configuration options. The configuration file is just a regular shell script sourced by the update-mirrors script.
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url - A string. The base URL for archlinux's mirrorlist generator. You probably don't have to change this.
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countries - An array of strings. Which countries you want to include mirrors from. You will probably want to change this.
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protocols - An array of strings. Which protocols to include. Available protocols are
httpandhttps. -
ip_versions - An array of numbers. Which IP versions to include in the mirrorlist. Available versions are
4and6. -
use_mirror_status - The string “on” or empty. Turning this on will make the generator filter the list of mirrors by the mirror score from the Mirror Status page.
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dest - A string, a file path. Where to write the result to. You probably don't have to change this.