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Parallel ping ranker for pacman's mirrorlist
NAME prankm -- Parallel ping ranker for pacman's mirrorlist.
SYNOPSIS prankm [-i] [-n #] [-m #.#] [/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist]
Ranks the mirrorlist file. If a mirrorlist is not given as an
argument then the default /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file is read.
Options:
-n | --num The number of top ranked servers to use in file.
Set to 0 to use all servers. Default: 20
-m | --max Maximum delay to wait for pings, in seconds.
Default: 0.25
-i | --inplace Inplace editing, overwrite source file with results.
-h | --help This help screen.
OPTIONS -n|--num The maximum number of servers pacman should use. The top ranked servers are left uncommented in the output, with the rest commented out.
-m|--max
The maximum amount of time to wait for ping responses. After this
delay the program will stop waiting for pings and print the
serverlist.
-i|--inplace
Overwrite the mirrorlist file specified or
*/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist* if none was specified.
SEE ALSO pacman(8)
AUTHOR
Justin Davis `
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE Copyright 2010 Justin Davis, all rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.