unable to update some packages: pacman thinks installed ones are newer

fax8 · 2007-06-18 21:43:56

Hi all,

pacman gives me this warning on updates:

[root@beta ~]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 current is up to date
 extra is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: ion: local (20070203-1) is newer than extra (3rc_20070506-1)
warning: jdk: local (6-2) is newer than extra (6u1-1)
 local database is up to date

What should I do?

Thanks,

Fabio Varesano

Ramses de Norre · 2007-06-18 21:50:37

pacman -S ion jdk

ravisghosh · 2007-06-22 03:10:47

I'm facing the same issue after removing mirrors which are geographically far from me and keeping the near ones. I'm located in india and hence, i left mirros from asia, australia, and turkey and removed every other mirro and than ran rankmirror. Now, it says that a lot of package installed are newer than that on server. What I can make out is that these servers are not up to date.. I then put back the original mirror files in pacman.d with all the mirros from all over the world and it works fine now.

Last edited by ravisghosh (2007-06-22 03:32:33)

ataraxia · 2007-06-22 04:52:05

Most mirrors update daily. If you leave just the nearby ones in, they should catch up to you soon.

ravisghosh · 2007-06-22 13:14:51

how about running rankmirror with all the mirrors (from all over the world). That will select the fastest (and probably nearest) one anyway. Am I right.

shining · 2007-06-22 13:40:20

ravisghosh wrote:

how about running rankmirror with all the mirrors (from all over the world). That will select the fastest (and probably nearest) one anyway. Am I right.

I guess the main problem is that it'll take much more time, without any benefits, because the nearest mirror are generally the fastest. Am I wrong ?

Though, there are probably some regions that are not well deserved (not much mirrors, and of poor quality), in this case you might want to extend it a bit. But mirrors at the opposite of the globe are generally not very fast

iphitus · 2007-06-22 13:44:56

shining wrote:

ravisghosh wrote:
how about running rankmirror with all the mirrors (from all over the world). That will select the fastest (and probably nearest) one anyway. Am I right.
I guess the main problem is that it'll take much more time, without any benefits, because the nearest mirror are generally the fastest. Am I wrong ?
Though, there are probably some regions that are not well deserved (not much mirrors, and of poor quality), in this case you might want to extend it a bit. But mirrors at the opposite of the globe are generally not very fast

you'd be surprised. Here in Australia, there's an irish mirror I get great speeds from, despite ireland being literally on the other side of the planet. Yet closer neighbors, like japan, and some south east asian countries, I get terrible speeds.

ravisghosh · 2007-06-22 14:09:57

Does running rankmirror automatically assigns greater priority to the faster ones or it just shows which are fast and we manualy need to edit the file and place the faster mirrors before others?

shining · 2007-06-22 14:13:49

iphitus wrote:

you'd be surprised. Here in Australia, there's an irish mirror I get great speeds from, despite ireland being literally on the other side of the planet. Yet closer neighbors, like japan, and some south east asian countries, I get terrible speeds.

And from Australia mirrors ?

But well, indeed I'm still surprised, my experience and logic let me think otherwise.
How is this explained ? Awfully crap link between australia and asia ?

dale77 · 2007-06-24 10:20:33

iphitus wrote:

you'd be surprised. Here in Australia, there's an irish mirror I get great speeds from, despite ireland being literally on the other side of the planet. Yet closer neighbors, like japan, and some south east asian countries, I get terrible speeds.

My fastest mirror (from New Zealand) happens to be a UK one too...

Although currently it is saying I'm up-2-date... and I'm on pacman 3.0.4...

Update: seems like that fast mirror was last updated back on the 17th June.

Last edited by dale77 (2007-06-24 10:46:04)

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