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NAME

pacman-mirrors - generate pacman mirrorlist for Manjaro Linux

SYNOPSIS

pacman-mirrors [-f NUMBER | [[-i [-d]] [-c COUNTRY, [COUNTRY] ... | --geoip]]] [-m METHOD] [-a [-p PREFIX] [-R] [-G | -S BRANCH] [-P PROTO [PROTO] ...][-U URL]] [-b BRANCH] [-t SECONDS] [-q] [-v] [-n | -y]

DESCRIPTION

Generate mirrorlist for Manjaro Linux. Default is to rank all mirrors by reponse time. If no arguments are given pacman-mirrors lists available options. Pacman-mirrors requires access to files which are read-only so it must be run with su or sudo. To create a mirrorlist using all default use,

pacman-mirrors --generate

The mirrorlist generation process can be refined through arguments and arguments with options, for example,

pacman-mirrors --country Denmark --timeout 5

OPTIONS

Some options are mutual exclusive and will throw an arguments error:

Others can be used together but they have precedence. If the fasttrack arg is used with interactive, country or geoip the fasttrack arg will have precendence and the others are ignored. Some arguments requires other argument to have effect for example, this command will ignore --default argument

WRONG pacman-mirrors -b unstable --default

as it should have been in conjunction with --interactive, like

CORRECT pacman-mirrors -b unstable --interactive --default

The same goes for the API specific arguments. For those to have effect the --api argument must be present also.

pacman-mirrors -aS unstable

The arguments can appear in any order except for arguments which takes additional options in which case the options must follow immediately after the argument, for example

pacman-mirrors -ayidS unstable

METHODS

-g, --generate : Generate a new default mirrorlist using defaults

-f, --fasttrack NUMBER : Generates a mirrorlist with a number mirrors ranked by responsiveness, the mirrors are selected from http://repo.manjaro.org/status.json

-i, --interactive [--default] : Launches a tool for selectively picking mirrors and protocols, --default forces pacman-mirrors to load the default mirror file and ignore any preset custom-mirrors file, thus allowing for reselecting mirrors for a new custom mirror file

-m, --method METHOD : Default method is rank but random can be selected

BRANCH

-b, --branch BRANCH : Temporarily use another branch, use stable, testing or unstable, the branch is reset with next run of pacman-mirrors

COUNTRY

-c, --country COUNTRY [COUNTRY] ... : Specifiy a country or a list of countries

--geoip : Use geolocation if possible, if not uses all mirrors

-l, --list, --country-list : Lists available mirror countries

API

-a, --api [-p PREFIX] [-R] [-G|-S BRANCH] [-P PROTO [PROTO] ...][-U URL] : Instructs pacman-mirrors to activate processing of API arguments

-p, --prefix PREFIX : Add a path prefix to pacman-mirrors file-handling eg. /mnt/install or $mnt

-G, --get-branch : Return branch from configuration.

-R, --re-branch : Replace the branch in mirrorlist

-S, --set-branch BRANCH : Replace the branch in configuration, use stable, testing or unstable

-P, --proto, --protocols PROTO [PROTO] ... : Write the protocols to configuration, use all or http, https, ftp and ftps

-U, --url URL : Replace mirrorlist with supplied url

MISC

-h, --help : Show the help message

-n, --no-mirrorlist : Use to skip generation of mirrorlist

-q, --quiet : Make pacman-mirrors silent

-t, --timeout SECONDS : Change the number of seconds waiting for a server response, SSL enabled mirrors has this value doubled to compensate for the time spent on exchanging encryption keys

-v, --version : Show the version of pacman-mirrors

-y, --sync : Instruct pacman-mirrors to syncronize the pacman database

Exit status:

0 : OK
1 : Problem with argument
2 : Problem accessing systemfiles
3 : Missing mirror file
BRANCH: Value from config

Configuration flow of pacman-mirrors

At launch an internal default configuration is setup, file configuration is applied and the commandline is parsed and applied.

API arguments

These arguments modifies key elements of pacman-mirrors configuration according to the packagers needs.

The actions performed by the API are in strict order and performed before any other actions.

  1. If --prefix
  2. prefix internal file configuration with $PREFIX
  3. continue
  4. If --set-branch
  5. apply internal branch configuration with $BRANCH
  6. continue
  7. If --url
  8. apply internal configuration to a mirrorlist with $URL
  9. continue
  10. If --re-branch
  11. replace branch in mirrorlist with $BRANCH
  12. continue

  13. If --get-branch

  14. sys.exit(config.branch)

When done pacman-mirrors checks the internet connection and if possible download the latest datafiles for creating the mirrorlist. At this point it is possible to interupt further processing.

If the -n / no-mirrorlist argument is present pacman-mirrors will now exit.

EXAMPLES

Most optional arguments are self explaining others require explanation. The API functions is mainly designed to help packagers and iso-builders. However it can be of use for everyone because it takes the hazzle out of editing your pacman-mirrors configuration.

REPORTING BUGS

https://github.com/manjaro/pacman-mirrors/issues

SEE ALSO

The pacman-mirrors source code and all documentation may be downloaded from https://github.com/manjaro/pacman-mirrors/archive/master.zip

AUTHORS

Esclapion esclapion@manjaro.org
philm philm@manjaro.org
Ramon Buldó rbuldo@gmail.com
Hugo Posnic huluti@manjaro.org
Frede Hundewadt frede@hundewadt.dk