shiny-mirrors is a command-line utility for finding and managing pacman mirrors. It is an alternative to pacman-mirrors and Arch Linux’s reflector, and is written in Rust.
The tool can filter mirrors by country, continent, protocol and IP version. It benchmarks suitable mirrors using either total request time or transfer time, while filters can restrict results according to their synchronisation status.
There are options to limit the number of mirrors tested, select mirrors interactively and perform a dry run without changing the local mirror list. shiny-mirrors can also report the status of mirrors currently in use and supports scheduled refreshes using systemd.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Find and rank suitable pacman mirrors;
- Filter mirrors by country or continent;
- Filter by HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS protocols;
- Filter by IPv4 or IPv6 support;
- Benchmark using total request time or transfer time;
- Restrict mirrors according to their last synchronisation time;
- Interactively select mirrors before writing the mirror list;
- Dry-run mode;
- Show the status of mirrors currently in use;
- Block problematic mirror domains; and
- Systemd service and timer for scheduled mirror refreshes.
Website: gitlab.com/Arisa_Snowbell/shiny-mirrors
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Developer: Arisa Snowbell
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
shiny-mirrors is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Arch Mirror Tools Client Side | |
|---|---|
| shiny-mirrors | Find the best mirrors for Arch-based distros |
| reflector-cacheserver | Retrieve up-to-date Arch Linux mirror data |
| GhostMirror | Mirror analyzer for Arch Linux |
| ReflectorTK | Simple GUI for reflector |
| pacrank | Ranks Arch Linux mirrors to find the fastest servers |
| mirro-rs | Arch Linux mirrorlist manager with a TUI |
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