Creating a Mirror

Available Mirrors

The mirrors are defined in the pacman-mirrors package.

Creating a New Mirror

• The repository size is ~150 GiB (as of 2020/10)
• You can use rsync to update your mirror using rsync -rtlvH --delete-after --delay-updates --safe-links
• If you want to add your mirror to the main mirror list please open a PR against the pacman-mirrors package

Our main repository supports rsync: rsync://repo.msys2.org/builds

Some of the existing mirrors also support rsync:

• rsync://mirror.yandex.ru/mirrors/msys2
• rsync://mirror.selfnet.de/msys2