[RFE] pamac-mirrorlist.service
Im suggesting an improvement to this service unit, to allow using local-admin-configuration of the passed options to pacman-mirrors, plus other useful extras.
I would have created a MR, but seems we are unable to make a personal clone on your GitLab instance, which is needed for this functionality...
Anyhow, here is the proposed contents of pamac-mirrorlist.service
[Unit]
Description=Generate mirrorlist
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
[Service]
Environment='PMOptions=-f8'
#Environment='PMOptions=--continent'
Type=oneshot
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/pacman-mirrors --quiet $PMOptions
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pacman-mirrors --status
ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/pacman -Sy- The options tobe used can be set in the Environment line, or overridden using drop-in configs as usual without the need to change the exec line(s).
(See systemd.exec#Environment and systemd.service#Command lines) - The
ExecStartline containing--statusis just so the output of that invocation will be written to the logs, which will be handy for the admin.
Plus it reflects the name of the service better😉 - The last line is the recommended command to run after any change to the mirror list.
I didnt use-Syuon purpose because that would trigger an auto-upgrade without the admins consent.😉
I currently use a drop-in to override the current service file, but would be nice to have this for everyone by default.
(I'm using the --continent option instead...)
Example run on my machine
# /usr/lib/systemd/system/pamac-mirrorlist.service
[Unit]
Description=Generate mirrorlist
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pacman-mirrors -f8
# /etc/systemd/system/pamac-mirrorlist.service.d/override.conf
[Service]
#Environment='PMOptions=-f8'
Environment='PMOptions=--continent'
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/pacman-mirrors --quiet $PMOptions
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pacman-mirrors --status
ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/pacman -SyNov 15 12:52:39 manjaro systemd[1]: Starting Generate mirrorlist...
Nov 15 12:53:45 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20740]: ::INFO => Mirror pool: https://repo.manjaro.org/mirrors.json
Nov 15 12:53:45 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20740]: ::INFO => Mirror status: https://repo.manjaro.org/status.json
Nov 15 12:53:45 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20740]: ::INFO User generated mirror list
Nov 15 12:53:45 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20740]: ::------------------------------------------------------------
Nov 15 12:53:45 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20740]: ::INFO Custom mirror file saved: /var/lib/pacman-mirrors/custom-mirrors.json
Nov 15 12:53:45 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20740]: ::INFO Using default mirror file
Nov 15 12:53:45 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20740]: ::INFO Querying mirrors - This may take some time
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Local mirror status for stable branch
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #1 OK 06:14 Turkey http://ftp.linux.org.tr/manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #2 OK 06:12 Georgia http://manjaro.grena.ge/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #3 OK 01:50 India https://mirror.albony.xyz/manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #4 OK 03:09 Iran https://mirror.bardia.tech/manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #5 OK 00:20 Singapore https://mirror.freedif.org/Manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #6 OK 06:12 Georgia https://repos.silknet.com/manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #7 OK 00:20 Japan http://ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp/Linux/manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #8 OK 01:43 Singapore http://ossmirror.mycloud.services/os/linux/manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #9 OK 08:00 Philippines http://mirror.rise.ph/manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #10 OK 05:10 Japan https://mirrors.xtom.jp/manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #11 OK 05:11 Thailand https://mirror.kku.ac.th/manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #12 OK 01:51 Taiwan https://mirror.archlinux.tw/Manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #13 OK 01:50 South_Korea https://mirror.funami.tech/manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #14 OK 06:12 China https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #15 OK 00:20 Singapore https://mirror.guillaumea.fr/manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #16 OK 06:12 China https://mirrors.huaweicloud.com/manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #17 OK 01:39 China https://mirrors.sjtug.sjtu.edu.cn/manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #18 OK 04:00 Singapore https://download.nus.edu.sg/mirror/manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #19 OK 06:12 China https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #20 OK 06:12 China https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #21 OK 05:10 Bangladesh http://mirror.xeonbd.com/manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman-mirrors[20750]: Mirror #22 OK 01:47 Bangladesh https://bd.mirror.vanehost.com/Manjaro/
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman[20752]: :: Synchronizing package databases...
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman[20752]: core downloading...
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman[20752]: extra downloading...
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman[20752]: community downloading...
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro pacman[20752]: multilib downloading...
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro systemd[1]: pamac-mirrorlist.service: Deactivated successfully.
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro systemd[1]: Finished Generate mirrorlist.
Nov 15 12:53:46 manjaro systemd[1]: pamac-mirrorlist.service: Consumed 2.960s CPU time, received 3.9M IP traffic, sent 142.8K IP traffic.