milcheck

🍵 MIrrorList Check

A CLI to get the status of the local pacman mirrorlist and the Arch Linux latest news

How ?

Milcheck reads /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and retrieves the corresponding mirror data from the official status page.

The last news are fetched from the RSS feed.

Why ?

As explained in the mirror doc, before a system upgrade i.e. sudo pacman -Syu, you should check that the mirrors set in your mirrorlist are up-to-date e.g. not out of sync.

It's not

..an additional mirror list ranking utility.

Install

• latest release
• AUR package

Usage

Prints the mirrors status

milcheck

Print the Arch Linux latest news

milcheck -n

Print both mirrors and latest news (most recent one)

milcheck -m -n1

License

Mozilla Public License 2.0