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eush

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Registered: 2026-03-30

Posts: 1

404 when downloading packages from archive.archlinux.org using 'last'

Hi!

I'm having a problem following https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_L … cific_date to set a particular snapshot for my packages.

In particular, I want to use one of the "special directories" 'last', 'month', or 'week' in a server URL, but I'm getting 404 when it comes to downloading packages.

I'm setting the server address in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist to 'https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/last/$repo/os/$arch', but 'pacman -Syyuu' exits with the following errors:

:: Retrieving packages...
 systemd-260.1-1-x86_64 downloading...
 leancrypto-1.7.0-1-x86_64 downloading...
 systemd-libs-260.1-1-x86_64 downloading...
 archlinux-keyring-20260323-1-any downloading...
 ncurses-6.6-2-x86_64 downloading...
error: failed retrieving file 'systemd-260.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from archive.archlinux.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'systemd-libs-260.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from archive.archlinux.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'leancrypto-1.7.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from archive.archlinux.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
warning: too many errors from archive.archlinux.org, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
error: failed retrieving file 'archlinux-keyring-20260323-1-any.pkg.tar.zst' from archive.archlinux.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'ncurses-6.6-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from archive.archlinux.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
warning: failed to retrieve some files
error: failed to commit transaction (failed to retrieve some files)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Same errors with https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/month and https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/week. However, https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/2026/03/01 and https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/2026/03/30 work just fine.

Is this use case not supported?

mpan

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Registered: 2012-08-01

Posts: 1,593

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Re: 404 when downloading packages from archive.archlinux.org using 'last'

Welcome to the forum!

I’m not entirely sure, but I believe these were supposed to be symlinks to the relevant directories. I pinged people in #archlinux-devops. Let’s see.

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