Repository doesn't work properly or is incomplete.

Dennis Beekman · 2010-08-17 11:02:30

Today i enabled the testing repository to test kernel 2.6.35-2 but after putting the testing repository in my /etc/pacman.conf i did not get the packages upgrade that i thought i would ...

I ran 'sudo pacman -Syu" and it updated the repos but only installed like 5 packages and the kernel was not one of them.
I checked to see if this was all but now when i run the command it says all is up-to-date and that there is nothing todo.

when i run "pacman -Q kernel26" it gives me "kernel26 2.6.34.3-1"

aside from the standard stuff this is what i have in my pacman.conf

[options]
#RootDir     = /
#DBPath      = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir    = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
LogFile     = /var/log/pacman.log
HoldPkg      = pacman glibc
SyncFirst    = pacman kernel26-headers
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl %u > %o
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
#IgnorePkg   =
#IgnoreGroup =
#NoUpgrade   =
#NoExtract   =
#Misc options (all disabled by default)
#UseSyslog
#ShowSize
#UseDelta
#TotalDownload

[core]
Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686

[community]
Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686

[extra]
Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686

[testing]
Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686

[catalyst]
Server = http://catalyst.apocalypsus.net/repo/catalyst/i686

what am i doing wrong here ? it should have worked right ?

Last edited by Dennis Beekman (2010-08-17 11:04:35)

Allan · 2010-08-17 11:03:43

The [testing] entry needs to be above [core]

karol · 2010-08-17 11:12:31

Any reasons for not using 'Architecture = auto'?

Dennis Beekman · 2010-08-17 11:25:41

It worked... thanks for this.
I didn't know that it was hirarchical based when it checks the repo's... :-)
you learn something every day i always say.

what is the benefit of using this "auto" function.

karol · 2010-08-17 11:29:43

Dennis Beekman wrote:

It worked... thanks for this.
I didn't know that it was hirarchical based when it checks the repo's... :-)
you learn something every day i always say.
what is the benefit of using this "auto" function.

There's not much of a benefit, it's one of the features of pacman 3.4, I just wanted to make sure you merged pacnew files after the update.

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#1 2010-08-17 11:02:30

Repository doesn't work properly or is incomplete.

#2 2010-08-17 11:03:43

Re: Repository doesn't work properly or is incomplete.

#3 2010-08-17 11:12:31

Re: Repository doesn't work properly or is incomplete.

#4 2010-08-17 11:25:41

Re: Repository doesn't work properly or is incomplete.

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Re: Repository doesn't work properly or is incomplete.

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