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ben-arch

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Registered: 2005-12-17

Posts: 115

Error reading from Testing repository

I have the following lines in may pacman.conf file (and others, ofcourse ...) :

#[testing]
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/testing/os/i686

The second line was commented out originaly and I uncommented it.  The reference to the other repositories comes after the Testing reference.  This is the original structure of the file that Ie found after installation.

The problem is that I getting the following error while trying to run pacman :

config: line 35: syntax error

(line 35 is the Server = .... line)

If I recomment the line, all goes well and I connecting to the other repositories for whatever I want to do.

Any ideas what the problem is ?

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: Error reading from Testing repository

the first line shouldn't be commented either.

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ben-arch

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Registered: 2005-12-17

Posts: 115

Re: Error reading from Testing repository

That was the problem

Thanks Dusty

Though I still wonder - why other repositories that were commented the same did work

paranoos

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From: thornhill.on.ca

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 442

Re: Error reading from Testing repository

the ones that work that way are actually reading a repo server list file, which has the repo name included.