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zsoltika

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2005-05-29

Posts: 8

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two noob question about unstable and abs

Hi for everyone, I'm a brand new Arch user, coming from 2 years of Gentoo (because of that long compile times - I don't have a cluster), and earlier some Suse.
Got two little(?) problem:
1. I would like to give 'abs' a try, but I'm behind our corporate firewall, so I can only access the web via https?@:80 and pop/smtp. How does one can sync abs like this?
2. I uncommented the unstable branch in pacman.conf, like this:

[extra]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/extra
Include = /etc/pacman.d/unstable

And havinf the unstable mirrors like this:

#
# The Unstable tree.  Contains unstable or development versions of packages.
#
[unstable]
Server = http://archlinux.antesis.org/unstable/os/i686
Server = ftp://archlinux.creativa.cl/unstable/os/i686
Server = http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/archlinux/unstable/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.de/pub/archlinux/unstable/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/unstable/os/i68
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Server = ftp://ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de/pub/linux/mirror/ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/dist
ributions/archlinux/unstable/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.oit.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/archlinux/unstable/os/i68
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Server = ftp://ftp.parrswood.net/Mirrors/ftp.archlinux.org/unstable/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr/pub/Linux/distrib/archlinux/unstable/os/i6
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Server = ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/sunsite.unc-mirror/distributions/arc
hlinux/unstable/os/i686
Server = ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/archlinux/unstable/os/i686
Server = ftp://saule.mintis.lt/pub/linux/unstable/os/i686

But when I

pacman -Syu

It shows like the unstable 'db' is only 3k 'big'. So I can not find openoffice2 which disturbes me a lot ...
Thanks for any help.

phrakture

Arch Overlord

From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: two noob question about unstable and abs

it appears your top mirror is out of sync.... switch it the darkstar mirror...

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Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: two noob question about unstable and abs

1. abs is just a bash script using cvsup IIRC. Take a look at it  (as well as /etc/abs/abs.conf). 

2. modify pacman.conf like this :

[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/extra
[unstable]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/unstable

zsoltika

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2005-05-29

Posts: 8

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Re: two noob question about unstable and abs

Yo guys that was fast. Thanks. While reading now installing openoffice2 and realised (reading man cvsup) that I cannot acces the cvs, because our firewall blocks the incoming cvs ports as well. Now consulting our sysadm. Thx again.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: two noob question about unstable and abs

If the abs problem doesn't work out, you can always use the web interface to access the cvs and get what you need: http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/

zsoltika

Member

From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2005-05-29

Posts: 8

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Re: two noob question about unstable and abs

There is a possibility, 'cause got some rude sysadm.
Would be great to create some daily tarballs of the cvs for users like me...

xerxes2

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From: Malmoe, Sweden

Registered: 2004-04-23

Posts: 1,249

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Re: two noob question about unstable and abs

there is of course the webinterface if you want to check some pkgbuilds,

just go to the frontpage and click on "cvs repository" , it's on the bottom,

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