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LJNielsenDk

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Registered: 2019-03-16

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Can't update AUR package also I'm not seeing any pacman updates

I don't recall doing anything that should have any effect on this but it's been maybe a week or two so I'm not sure.

As for the AUR part this is confusing me:

$ yay
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do
:: Searching databases for updates...
:: Searching AUR for updates...
:: 1 Packages to upgrade.
1  aur/ttf-symbola  11.00-3 -> 12.00-1
==> Packages to not upgrade: (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3, ^4 or repo name)
==> 1
 there is nothing to do

I have tried yay -Sc which didn't help.

As for the pacman part, there should also be a long list of updates, e.g. a new kernel which I have installed on another computer so I know it should be there. There are several mirrors enabled in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.

I'm not sure if the two things are related.

Last edited by LJNielsenDk (2019-03-16 10:45:33)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Can't update AUR package also I'm not seeing any pacman updates

:: 1 Packages to upgrade.
1  aur/ttf-symbola  11.00-3 -> 12.00-1
==> Packages to not upgrade: (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3, ^4 or repo name)
==> 1

This suggests you told yay not to update ttf-symbola .

As for the pacman part,

yay is not pacman. run pacman -Syu. If that also fails :
Check which mirror is the first one pacman will use and verify it's status at https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/
If the mirror is out of sync or has other problems , switch to a better mirror.

Incase that doesn't help, run pacman -Syu --debug . start a separate thread and post the debug output.

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LJNielsenDk

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Registered: 2019-03-16

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Re: Can't update AUR package also I'm not seeing any pacman updates

Odd. According to the mirror status page the first one should work but I decided to grab a fresh mirror list and now the pacman part works.

As for AUR, apparently it's a package problem with a rather non-intuitive message.
Doing yay --redownloadall ttf-symbola says ttf-symbola-12.00.zip fails its validity check so I guess that's why it claims there's nothing to do when just doing a normal update.

a821

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Re: Can't update AUR package also I'm not seeing any pacman updates

yay must be doing something funny because makepkg works just fine. Please post complete output

Trilby

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Re: Can't update AUR package also I'm not seeing any pacman updates

... I guess that's why it claims there's nothing to do when just doing a normal update.

No, there's nothing to do, because you told it not to do the one thing that there was to do!

... you told yay not to update ttf-symbola

EDIT: please note the maintainer of yay would prefer you not ask these questions on these forums:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=242310
https://github.com/Jguer/yay#support

Last edited by Trilby (2019-03-16 15:39:02)

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