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fplolz

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 47

pkgcache is NULL for db 'core' [Solved]

hello

erm.. well i updated pacman to 3.4 not too long ago ..and ran a Syu recently..
and it gave me an error "error invoking external downloader"

right..so i entered this line on the pacman.conf

XferCommand = /usr/bin/axel -a %u &o -o

and have also tried curl
XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -C - %u > %o

Realised that the core repo db wasnt being downloaded at all..instead of downloading the $repo.db.tar.gz , it was trying todownload $repo.db

"Initializing download: http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/arch … 64/core.db "

does anyone have any idea why ?

kinda lost here

i have
Architecture = x86_64
and have tried other repos  with the same result ..pacman still downloads the db instead of db.tar.gz
Edit: i had tried pacman-git after pacman 3.3 before moving to pacman 3.4

Last edited by fplolz (2010-09-05 14:15:29)

Allan

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Re: pkgcache is NULL for db 'core' [Solved]

Umm...  looks like you are still the git version.   It downloads the core.db file.

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fplolz

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 47

Re: pkgcache is NULL for db 'core' [Solved]

O.o ooh okie

my bad ! ..  I did not remove all the files of pacman-git

solved ..and sorry for the trouble
thanks!