Manage your Arch Linux mirrors with Reflector

Sun, 02 Aug 2020 15:08:17 +0100

Reflector is a script which can retrieve the latest mirror list from the MirrorStatus page, filter the most up-to-date mirrors, sort them by speed and overwrite the file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.

Instalation

Install reflector

1yay -S reflector

Create the systemd service

1sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/reflector.service

 1[Unit]
 2Description=Pacman mirrorlist update
 3Wants=network-online.target
 4After=network-online.target nss-lookup.target
 5
 6[Service]
 7Type=oneshot
 8ExecStart=/usr/bin/reflector --verbose --protocol https --country 'Portugal' --latest 30 --number 20 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
 9
10[Install]
11WantedBy=multi-user.target

1sudo systemctl daemon-reload
2sudo systemctl start reflector.service
3sudo systemctl status reflector.service

You can enable the service. I prefer to control when the scripts executes.

Use Reflector to update your pacman mirror list

Sun, 04 Dec 2016 20:22:12 +0000

1sudo pacman -S reflector
2
3sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/reflector.service

1[Unit]
2Description=Pacman mirrorlist update
3
4[Service]
5Type=oneshot
6ExecStart=/usr/bin/reflector --verbose --country 'Portugal' -l 5 -p http --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

1sudo systemctl start reflector

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Manage your Arch Linux mirrors with Reflector

Instalation

Use Reflector to update your pacman mirror list