Few questions with pacman

Sole · 2007-04-12 06:02:42

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but does the default server contains the same packages on the repository package list on archlinux.org main page?
I see a lot of updates for certain packages like the ones for xfce today, but I don't think using pacman -Syu give me any updates, sorry but I keep getting these confusion using arch, there's a wiki around while it does tell you how to do specific tasks, I still get confused over some really simple stuff that are or that aren't there, for example I couldn't find any mirrors url in my own pacman.conf file, I understand that wiki shows you how to add your own and even given you a list of mirrors, but there gotta be a server you're already using as default? How do you know which server you're currently using or is there another file for that?
I came from ubuntu and I'm used to seeing a bunch of server in the sources.list but I'm not quite seeing the same with pacman.conf so I'm quite confused, still trying to learn

Also I'm getting the following when doing sudo pacman -Syu:
db_read: error: /var/lib/pacman/extra/libticalcs-1.0.2-1/depends: No such file or directory

How could I fix that? Thanks

Current, extra, unstable and community seems to sync fine but for some reason I can't install xfce4-goodies, it's not in the database, I'm not sure if my pacman.conf is messed up since I remember myself installing xfce4-goodies with no problems.

Last edited by Sole (2007-04-12 06:07:17)

Pajaro · 2007-04-12 06:13:20

the server ftp.archlinux.org shows the same packages than www.archlinux.org, the other mirrors need some time to get the same package list.

seeing your error in pacman, it only concerns to extra, repository, so you can erase it.

do: rm -r /var/lib/pacman/extra

important, never ever erase /var/lib/pacman/local, since it is a list of installed packages

the thing of not finding xfce4-goodies may have to do with this. You should try to find out why your local copy extra repository got corrupted.

In case of doubt you can erase all the folders in /var/lib/pacman except local!

Sole · 2007-04-12 06:18:48

ahh thank you removing extra stopped the error. I'll mess around with it a little bit.

Last edited by Sole (2007-04-12 06:19:13)

mcubed · 2007-04-12 06:21:04

I believe the updates (the ones that appear on the main page) hit the main ftp.archlinux.org server first. That server is throttled, however, so you probably want to use a mirror instead. It might take a while for the mirror you're using to sync with the main server; that accounts for the delay.

You'll find the server list in /etc/pacman.d/ -- there should be five files in that directory, one for each repository: community, current, extra, release, and unstable. You configure which repositories you want to use in pacman.conf, but pacman.conf doesn't actually contain the URLs for the mirrors. So, for example, if you want to use current, extra, and community, you set that up in pacman.conf. Then you check /etc/pacman.d/current, /etc/pacman.d/extra, and /etc/pacman.d/community to fiddle with which mirror you want to use.

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#1 2007-04-12 06:02:42

Few questions with pacman

#2 2007-04-12 06:13:20

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