A script to rank and select XBPS mirrors.
The source code is mainly hosted on Codeberg with a mirror available on GitHub. Issues and pull requests should be made in Codeberg.
usage: xrankmirrors [-c URL] [-f] [-g] [-h] [-i] [-c URL -v URL -m] [-r REGION] [-s] [-v URL]
-c Set Cereus mirror (only for -m)
-f Print last rank results
-g Rank Void & Cereus mirrors and print results
-h Show this help
-i Manually change mirrors in interactive mode
-m Manually change mirrors on non-interactive mode (requires -v and/or -c)
-r Rank/list only specified region mirrors (valid options: AS,EU,NA,OC,SA,World)
-s Set fastest mirrors from previous results
-v Set Void mirror (only for -m)
It supports both Void and Cereus Linux mirrors.
Void Linux mirrorlist is get from xmirror list. For the best experience, choose a mirror geographically close to you, or use the Fastly Global CDN (listed in World).
Tier 1 mirrors are maintained by the Void Linux Infrastructure Team and will always have the latest packages available. Tier 2 mirrors are not managed by Void and do not have any guarantees of freshness or completeness of packages, nor are they required to sync every available architecture or sub-repository.
Tier 1 mirrors have all the packages available in both cereus-extra and cereus-core repositories and will always have the latest packages available.
Tier 2 mirrors are limited by 100MB limit size on packages, this make heavy packages like OnlyOffice, Brave or Heroic unavailable in them. You can choose them only if you are ok with that.
Supported region formats are based in Void xmirror, which uses https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Abbreviations region abbreviations.
When a region is only available in Void or Cereus mirrors, the wizard will fallback the another one to World region.
As you may seen, xrankmirrors provides a desktop file. It will look for terminal emulators in your system using different methods. When using PCManFM-Qt it will extract the default terminal emulator from there. When using XFCE it will use exo-open to launch the default terminal emulator. In case your terminal emulator is not detected or the script launches the wrong one, please set it at ~/.config/xrankmirrors.conf like this:
terminal=kitty
Rank XBPS mirrors in non-interactive mode, listing only mirrors from North America:
# xrankmirrors -r NA -g
Change mirrors in non-interactive mode:
# xrankmirrors -c https://plug-mirror.rcac.purdue.edu/osdn/storage/g/c/ce/cereuslinux/repos/ -v https://mirrors.servercentral.com/voidlinux/ -m