Mirror Checker

This mirror status checker determines whether CSC mirror is up-to-date with upstream.

How To Run

A configuration file may be provided through standard input. Without a configuration file, execute python main.py. By default, all of the available distributions will be checked. With a configuration file, execute python main.py < name_of_config_file.in, for example, python main.py < example.in. In this case, only the distributions listed in the configuration file will be checked.

Resources

• CSC Mirror
• Debian Mirror Status Checker
• Debian Mirror Status Checker Code

if we can just view their repo online, we only have to remember the link for their repo and then check the latest timestamp in their repo the same way we check ours

even if the date relies on a specific file in their repo, we can still find the right link for it

to find repos of the distros to check, just search "distroName mirrors"

ubuntu releases: https://releases.ubuntu.com/?_ga=2.251394307.425973732.1629764407-1388600952.1629764407 ubuntu mirrors: http://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt raspbian mirror: https://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/archive.raspbian.org/archive/

mxlinux: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mx-linux/ (scrap the last day?)

linuxmint-packages pool: http://rsync-packages.linuxmint.com/pool/ scientific: https://scientificlinux.org/downloads/sl-mirrors/ (CSC not listed) slackware: https://mirrors.slackware.com/mirrorlist/ https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/ tdf: https://download.documentfoundation.org/ trisquel: https://trisquel.info/mirmon/index.html ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+mirror/mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca-archive ubuntu-ports: http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ ubuntu-ports-releases: https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ ubuntu-releases: https://releases.ubuntu.com/ vlc: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/ x.org: https://www.x.org/releases/