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doums

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milcheck, a binary to display mirrorlist status data in the terminal

Hi,

Because I recently learned Rust, I wanted to create something with it. So I created "milcheck".

https://image.petitmur.beer/milcheck.png

One of my need as an Archlinux user, is to regularly check the status of the mirrors presents in my mirrorlist before a system upgrade (as recommended in the official documentation).

It is not a ranking mirrorlist utility.
It just reads your `/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist`, fetch the corresponding data from the official mirror status page: https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/ and display it.
A quick way to check the status of your mirrors. Nothing more.

If you are interested, you can find it here: https://github.com/doums/milcheck

Hope it will be useful (just a little)

Last edited by jasonwryan (2019-09-05 21:15:14)

jasonwryan

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Re: milcheck, a binary to display mirrorlist status data in the terminal

Read the Code of Conduct and only post thumbnails http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cod … s_and_code

Cool tool:  it will be particularly handy on my laptop when I am travelling.

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figue

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Re: milcheck, a binary to display mirrorlist status data in the terminal

Thanks for this. Very useful, so I decided to make an AUR package:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/milcheck/

judd1

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Re: milcheck, a binary to display mirrorlist status data in the terminal

@doums
The contribution is excellent and works spectacular.
Thank you very much !!!

@figue
Thanks for the AUR package!

Last edited by judd1 (2019-11-30 17:49:40)

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Zod

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Re: milcheck, a binary to display mirrorlist status data in the terminal

This is pretty sweet!

Thanks guys

dglt

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Re: milcheck, a binary to display mirrorlist status data in the terminal

AUR build fails

==> Starting build()...
    Updating crates.io index
error: failed to fetch `https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index`
 
Caused by:
  object not found - no match for id (c68af5c9d6d1661f591e1c56a86d61b6e126cc65); class=Odb (9); code=NotFound (-3)

https://pastebin.com/QkC2egFK4

EDIT: works great, i had to clear ~/.cargo/registry and it installed fine. good work

Last edited by dglt (2020-01-27 16:40:33)

doums

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Re: milcheck, a binary to display mirrorlist status data in the terminal

Hi!

Thanks you @Zod @dglt @judd1 and @figue.
Now I'm the maintainer of the AUR package, I just updated it ! It was outdated, now the colors are not set arbitrary and the color palette of your terminal will be used instead (ANSI colors).

Tell me if you encounter any problems

figue

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Re: milcheck, a binary to display mirrorlist status data in the terminal

Hi!

Thanks you @Zod @dglt @judd1 and @figue.
Now I'm the maintainer of the AUR package, I just updated it ! It was outdated, now the colors are not set arbitrary and the color palette of your terminal will be used instead (ANSI colors).

Tell me if you encounter any problems

It was a pleasure. Thanks for this piece of software. Colours look pretty well.

tim3dman

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Re: milcheck, a binary to display mirrorlist status data in the terminal

Thanks @doums, this is just what I needed.