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## milcheck
:tea: _**MI**rror**L**ist **Check**_
A simple program that displays the status of your pacman
mirrorlist and the Arch Linux lastest news right in your terminal
### How ?
Milcheck just reads your `/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist` and retrieves
the corresponding data from the official
[mirror status page](https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/).
The latest news are directly scraped from https://archlinux.org/.
### Why ?
As explained in the
[mirror doc](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors), before
a system upgrade i.e. `sudo pacman -Syu`, you should check that
the mirrors in your mirrorlist are up to date e.g. not out of
sync.
### It's not
..an additional mirrorlist ranking utility.
### Install from [crates.io](https://crates.io/crates/milcheck)
install Rust -> https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
```
cargo install milcheck
```
### Arch Linux AUR package
Milcheck is present as a
[package](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/milcheck) in the Arch
User Repository.
### Build from sources
install Rust -> https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
```
git clone https://github.com/doums/milcheck.git
cd milcheck
cargo build
```
to build for release
```
cargo build --release
```
the binary is located under `target/debug` or `target/release`.
### Pre-built binary
Rust is a language that compiles to native code and by default
statically links. Simply download the pre-built binary from latest
[release](https://github.com/doums/milcheck/releases/latest).
### Usage
```
milcheck
```
In addition to the mirrorlist output you can print the Arch Linux
[lastest news](https://archlinux.org/), handy to stay informed:
```
milcheck -n
```
### License
Mozilla Public License 2.0