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 directly scraped from https://archlinux.org/.

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

By default, milcheck prints the mirrorlist status

milcheck

In addition, it can fetch and print the Arch Linux latest news, handy to stay informed:

milcheck -n5

Example: print both mirrorlist and the latest news

milcheck -m -n1

License

Mozilla Public License 2.0