What is the meaning of the numeric output of the pacman-mirrors status command (eg. Mirror #1 OK ->00:03<- Netherlands [***])? Is it the time since synchronization in hours:minutes?
It is the elapsed time of the query to that particular mirror. Testing of the response time.
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Good to know. Thanks for the response.
@linux-aarhus can confirm, but I believe it’s the time since that mirror has last synced from the master mirror in hh:mm format.
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The --status argument or when executing pacman-mirrors without any arguments will fetch repo.manjaro.org/status.json
The digits displayed is the last_sync property expressed as hh:mm.
The master server check the registered mirrors at certain intervals. If the mirror has updated in between or shortly after such check - the mirror may be up-to-date but the master server doesn’t know that yet.
I don’t know the actual interval - it is the same data used on repo.manjaro.org to display the status of the mirrors when they were last checked - a guess on the interval is 15 to 30 minutes - give or take.
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