milcheck

🍵 MIrrorList Check

A CLI that displays the status of your pacman mirrorlist and the Arch Linux latest news right in the terminal

How ?

Milcheck just reads your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and retrieves the corresponding data from the official mirror 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 in your mirrorlist are up-to-date e.g. not out of sync.

It's not

..an additional mirrorlist ranking utility.

Install

• latest release
• AUR package

Usage

Prints the mirrorlist status

milcheck

Print the Arch Linux latest news

milcheck -n

Print both mirrorlist and latest news (most recent one)

milcheck -m -n1

License

Mozilla Public License 2.0