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starfry

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From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2010-08-18

Posts: 238

pacman not syncing [extra] for i686

Hi all, I've got a problem here today with my build system. After doing some tests I can see that pacman is not syncing [extra]. Nothing has changed on my configuration, it's just behaving as if [extra] isn't present in my pacman.conf (which it is of course!).

On my i686 box:

$ pacman -Syy
:: Synchronising package databases...
 core                     103.7 KiB   174K/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
 community               1690.4 KiB   331K/s 00:05 [######################] 100%

Has anything changed?

As a test on another machine, I did this: a base build with one package from [extra]:

$ mkarchroot test_x86_64 base keychain

It works fine. If, in /etc/pacman.conf, I change Architecture from auto to i686 it fails:

$ mkarchroot test_i686 base keychain
warning: database file for 'core' does not exist
warning: database file for 'extra' does not exist
warning: database file for 'community' does not exist
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                                                                                           103.7 KiB   173K/s 00:01 [###################################################################################] 100%
 community                                                                                                     1690.4 KiB   328K/s 00:05 [###################################################################################] 100%
:: There are 55 members in group base:
:: Repository core
   1) bash  2) bzip2  3) coreutils  4) cronie  5) cryptsetup  6) device-mapper  7) dhcpcd  8) diffutils  9) e2fsprogs  10) file  11) filesystem  12) findutils  13) gawk  14) gcc-libs  15) gettext  16) glibc  17) grep  18) grub
   19) gzip  20) heirloom-mailx  21) inetutils  22) initscripts  23) iputils  24) jfsutils  25) less  26) licenses  27) linux  28) logrotate  29) lvm2  30) man-db  31) man-pages  32) mdadm  33) nano  34) pacman  35) pciutils
   36) pcmciautils  37) perl  38) ppp  39) procps-ng  40) psmisc  41) reiserfsprogs  42) sed  43) shadow  44) sysfsutils  45) syslog-ng  46) sysvinit  47) tar  48) texinfo  49) usbutils  50) util-linux  51) vi  52) wget
   53) which  54) wpa_supplicant  55) xfsprogs

Enter a selection (default=all): 
error: target not found: keychain
==> ERROR: Failed to install all packages

It doesn't matter what pkg from [extra] you choose, the problem isn't the package - it's the fact the [extra] repo is being ignored during the sync phase.

Hopefully someone can help, as I am somewhat bemused right now...

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: pacman not syncing [extra] for i686

Have you searched the forums? There are at least 3 other threads on this...

EDIT : Solution : Change your mirrors and try again. there are reports from users that some mirrors have had issues and seem to have lost the entire extra repo.

Closing...

Last edited by Inxsible (2012-06-08 15:58:17)

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