Arch Linux Mirrorlist Updater

This script helps automate the process of updating, filtering, and ranking Arch Linux mirrors. It ensures that only mirrors from specific countries are selected and provides a backup mechanism to safeguard the previous configuration.

Features

• Downloads the latest Arch Linux mirrorlist.
• Filters mirrors based on specific countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Worldwide by default).
• Removes comments only from server lines, preserving country headers.
• Ranks the mirrors based on speed and selects the top 6.
• Creates a backup of the current mirrorlist (/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.bak).
• Saves the updated mirrorlist to /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.

Requirements

• Arch Linux or a compatible system.
• Root privileges to execute the script.
• The curl utility to download the mirrorlist.
• The rankmirrors utility (part of the pacman-contrib package).

Installation

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://codeberg.org/Tealk/arch_mirrorlist_updater.git
   cd arch_mirrorlist_updater
   

2. Make the script executable:

   chmod +x update.sh
   

Usage

Run the script with root privileges:

sudo ./update.sh

The script will:

• Create a backup of the current mirrorlist (/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.bak).
• Filter and rank mirrors based on your criteria.
• Save the updated mirrorlist to /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.

Configuration

To adjust the country filter, modify the countries array in the script:

countries=("Germany" "Austria" "Switzerland" "Worldwide")

License

This project is licensed under the AGPL-3.0 License. See the LICENSE file for details.