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underpenguin

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Registered: 2007-02-01

Posts: 116

Pacman Issue with New Install

Hey,
I was setting up a dev server at my job, and I downloaded a fresh ftp install iso and installed arch successfully. However, installing a package wouldn't work. After investigating, I discovered I had to replace mirrorlist with $repo in my /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file in order for anything to update/install correctly. Anyone else have this problem? I got everything working, I'm just concerned about new users, etc.

elliott

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Registered: 2006-03-07

Posts: 296

Re: Pacman Issue with New Install

If you were reading as pacman installed, it tells you that. That is part of the upgrade to pacman 3.1.

You will always run into little stuff like that when doing FTP installs with Arch when it has been a little while since the release.

Last edited by elliott (2008-01-19 02:47:08)

kensai

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Re: Pacman Issue with New Install

EDIT: I see the problem wasn't what I though, but yeah the problem might worry some.

Last edited by kensai (2008-01-19 03:07:45)

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underpenguin

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Registered: 2007-02-01

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Re: Pacman Issue with New Install

Well, I don't think its very likely that everyone reads all output while installing, especially if you are like me and read the /dev/ttyXX that shows details. As far as arch evangelism goes, this seems like a pretty serious issue.

Edit: Dev/Mod(s): Would it be appropriate to add a note in the wiki somewhere at least?

Last edited by underpenguin (2008-01-19 03:05:56)

elliott

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Registered: 2006-03-07

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Re: Pacman Issue with New Install

It is an issue, nothing major though, all someone has to do is come here and ask or search the boards, just about everyone here is aware of this. As soon as the next snapshot is released, it won't be an issue anymore, stuff like this is unavoidable in a distro like Arch, it is constantly changing. I never do FTP installs for this reason, the same thing happened when the 'current' repo became 'core'.

Adding it to the wiki would be a good thing to do, just make a note that can easily be removed when the next release comes out.

Last edited by elliott (2008-01-19 05:54:34)

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

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Re: Pacman Issue with New Install

Edit: Dev/Mod(s): Would it be appropriate to add a note in the wiki somewhere at least?

u can make an account and update the wiki yourself. User's are encouraged to do so, after all if the dev's spent time editing wiki's they'd never have released pacman 3.1.