SMirrors 🪞

Automatic mirror list updater for Linux distributions - Keep your package manager mirrors fast and up-to-date with zero effort.

SMirrors intelligently selects the fastest mirrors for your Linux distribution based on real-time download speed and latency tests. Run it once, or set it up as a background service to keep your mirrors optimized 24/7.

✨ Features

• 🚀 Automatic Mirror Optimization - Tests and ranks mirrors by speed and latency
• 🐧 Multi-Distro Support - APT, DNF, Pacman, Zypper and more
• ⏰ Flexible Scheduling - Hourly auto-updates, custom intervals, or manual control
• 📌 Static Mirror Pinning - Preserve critical mirrors (Docker, custom repos)
• 🎨 Beautiful TUI - Interactive terminal interface for easy management
• 🔒 Safe & Reliable - Automatic backups, rollback on failure, validation
• 📊 History Tracking - Monitor performance over time
• ⚡ Fast & Efficient - Parallel testing, minimal resource usage
• 🛡️ Systemd Integration - Run as a background service

📦 Installation

From Binary Release

# Download latest release
curl -L https://github.com/Aryagorjipour/smirrors/releases/latest/download/smirrors-x86_64-linux.tar.gz | tar xz

# Install
sudo mv smirrors /usr/local/bin/
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/smirrors

From Source

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/Aryagorjipour/smirrors.git
cd smirrors

# Build and install
cargo build --release
sudo cp target/release/smirrors /usr/local/bin/

Post-Installation

# Initialize configuration
smirrors init

# Enable systemd service (optional)
sudo smirrors enable

🚀 Quick Start

Test mirrors without updating

smirrors test

Update mirror list now

sudo smirrors update

Launch interactive TUI

smirrors tui

Enable automatic updates

sudo smirrors enable

📖 Usage

Basic Commands

Static Mirror Management

# Add static mirror for Docker
smirrors add --repo docker https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu

# Remove a mirror
smirrors remove https://old-mirror.example.com

# List static mirrors
smirrors list --static

Configuration

# Edit configuration
smirrors config

# Set update interval
smirrors config set interval 2h

# Enable/disable specific distro handlers
smirrors config set distro.apt.enabled true

Service Management

# Enable automatic updates
sudo smirrors enable

# Disable automatic updates
sudo smirrors disable

# Check service status
smirrors status

# View logs
journalctl -u smirrors -f

⚙️ Configuration

Configuration file: /etc/smirrors/config.toml or ~/.config/smirrors/config.toml

[general]
update_interval = "1h"          # Auto-update interval
auto_update = true              # Enable automatic updates
concurrent_tests = 10           # Parallel mirror tests
timeout = 10                    # Test timeout in seconds

[testing]
speed_weight = 0.7              # Weight for download speed (0-1)
latency_weight = 0.3            # Weight for latency (0-1)
test_file_size = "1MB"          # Size of test download
max_mirrors = 5                 # Number of mirrors to include

[distro.apt]
enabled = true
sources_file = "/etc/apt/sources.list"
backup_dir = "/var/backups/smirrors"

[static_mirrors]
# Pin Docker mirror
docker = "https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu"

[logging]
level = "info"                  # debug, info, warn, error
format = "human"                # human, json
file = "/var/log/smirrors.log"

[notifications]
enabled = false
on_failure = true
on_success = false

🎨 TUI Interface

The TUI provides an interactive interface for:

• Dashboard - Service status, last update, current mirrors
• Test Results - Real-time mirror testing with progress bars
• History - Past updates and performance trends
• Configuration - Edit settings visually
• Static Mirrors - Manage pinned repositories

Keyboard Shortcuts:

• q - Quit
• t - Run test
• u - Update mirrors
• h - Show history
• c - Open configuration
• r - Rollback
• Tab - Switch views
• Enter - Select/Confirm
• Esc - Cancel/Back

🐧 Supported Distributions

🛠️ Development

Prerequisites

• Rust 1.75+ (2024 edition)
• Linux system for testing
• sudo access for integration tests

Building

# Development build
cargo build

# Release build
cargo build --release

# Run tests
cargo test

# Run with logging
RUST_LOG=debug cargo run -- test

Project Structure

• src/core/ - Core mirror testing and update logic
• src/distro/ - Distribution-specific handlers
• src/tui/ - Terminal UI implementation
• src/service/ - Background service/daemon
• src/cli/ - Command-line interface
• tests/ - Integration and unit tests

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

🔒 Security

• All mirror list modifications require sudo privileges
• Automatic backups before any changes
• Validation of mirror URLs and repository signatures
• Rollback capability in case of issues
• Secure HTTPS for mirror testing

Report security vulnerabilities to arygorji.pour@gmail.com

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Inspired by reflector (Arch), apt-select (Debian), and dnf fastest-mirror
• Built with amazing Rust crates: tokio, clap, ratatui, reqwest, serde
• Thanks to all Linux mirror maintainers worldwide

📞 Support

• 🐛 Issue Tracker

Made with ❤️ for the Linux community