rankmirrors
Rank a list of Pacman mirrors by connection and opening speed.
TLDR
Rank a mirror list
Output only a given number of the top ranking servers
Be verbose when generating the mirrorlist
Test only a specific URL
Output only the response times instead of a full mirrorlist
SYNOPSIS
rankmirrors [options] <mirrorfile | url>
DESCRIPTION
rankmirrors will rank pacman mirrors by their connection and opening speed. Pacman mirror files are located in /etc/pacman.d/. It can also rank one mirror if the URL is provided.
OPTIONS
-n <num>
Number of servers to output, 0 for all.
-m, --max-time <num>
Specify a ranking operation timeout, can be decimal number.
-p, --parallel
Run tests in parallel for all servers (may be inaccurate, depends on GNU parallel).
-r, --repo
Specify a repository name instead of guessing.
t, --times
Only output mirrors and their response times.
-u, --url
Test a specific URL.
-v, --verbose
Be verbose in output.
-h, --help
Display syntax and command-line options.
-V, --version
Display version information.
BUGS
Bugs? You must be kidding; there are no bugs in this software. But if we happen to be wrong, file an issue with as much detail as possible at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman-contrib/-/issues/new.
AUTHORS
Current maintainers:
·
Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis.com>
·
Daniel M. Capella <polyzen@archlinux.org>
For additional contributors, use git shortlog -s on the pacman-contrib.git repository.
