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vigilian

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Registered: 2016-06-05

Posts: 23

How to know that there has been a release from archlinux?

Hi,

I was wondering why my pacman didn't update any package for several weeks or months now and so I checked the current release of kernel image on the archlinux website and notice that I was outdated.
It is only because I found a tutorial online: https://www.ostechnix.com/solve-startin … rch-linux/
that actually by using reflector tool to update the repo, I had new updates....
Why is that? Is there a point to that? I thought that archlinux was on a continuous line of updates? I guess that if no repo were accessible, there would have been an error message in pacman no?
Thanks in advance

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,531

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Re: How to know that there has been a release from archlinux?

that actually by using reflector tool to update the repo, I had new updates....
Why is that?

Because whatever mirrors listed in your mirrorlist prior to running reflector were bad/broken.  Reflector fixed that problem for you.

Last edited by Trilby (2018-11-27 14:58:23)

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,715

Re: How to know that there has been a release from archlinux?

I cannot remember the last time that I have not seen at least one package updated in a single day.

Here is a link that should specifically answer your question:
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=-last_update

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