pacman upgrade missing current

tjololo · 2007-09-18 08:55:54

Hi!
I just performed a full system upgrade 'pacman -Syu'. There was a new version of pacman so I upgraded pacman first, but when it was done my current mirror list in /etc/pacman.d/ was missing... Can someone help me so that I can make a new current mirror list?

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natalian · 2007-09-18 09:06:05

http://www.archlinux.org/news/344/ and http://www.archlinux.org/news/345/ the repos have been shuffled, change all occurrences of current to core in /etc/pacman.conf

ise · 2007-09-18 09:06:50

Have you read the news on the frontside?
Didn't you see the install message after pacman update?

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Leigh · 2007-09-18 11:02:46

tjololo, Don't feel bad. I missed a meeting at work because I didn't read a memo that somehow must have dissapeard from my desk. Everyone showed no sympathy and tormented me unmercifully for it! I heard getting a tooth pulled would have been more fun than being in the meeting, so I guess I got off easy : )

stonecrest · 2007-09-18 17:29:16

No, I think he's saying that his /etc/pacman.d/current file was missing. I had the same issue and I don't believe it was intentional (e.g. it's a bug). There's no reason that upgrading to a new package should ever remove your old files, this could lead to really bad behavior with some packages.

I had mentioned this to toofishes and shining.

jacques · 2007-09-18 17:34:15

Im having problems updating pacman itself. I know everyone has said wait for the servers to sync, but, hasn't there been enough time for that to have happened already?

Once Im finished the base installation, I try and update pacman, but, Im never able to download the new version. It runs through the server lists, but doesn't connect. However, I know I am connected as Ive downloaded other files...

Any idea what's up?

thayer · 2007-09-18 18:19:46

jacques, what version does your pacman report? Run pacman -V (that's a capitol V). The current version is v3.0.6.

toma222 · 2007-09-18 18:46:53

Hi, I had the same problem with a fresh install. This is because there is -i686 in the package name now. So I use pacman -U full_url_of_pacman-i686.pkg.tar.gz to update it.

jacques · 2007-09-18 23:44:49

Im running 2.9.7

I know the latest build is 3.something, but my problem is actually getting that new package. Im having other pacman problems, but as of now, Im assuming they're due to the build I'm using.

Also, Toma, could you give me the URL you used to download the new file?
I tried doing pacman -U ftp://ftp.sixnix.net/os/archlinux/core/ … pkg.tar.gz and it wouldn't work.

I don't know if this helps much, but the first error I see is that it can't read the filesize of the pacman package. From there, not much else happens.

Thanks in advance

Cerebral · 2007-09-19 00:06:07

pacman -U ftp://ftp.sixnix.net/pub/archlinux/core/os/i686/{pacman-3.0.6-1-i686,libarchive-2.2.6-2,libdownload-1.1-3,fakeroot-1.7.1-3-i686}.pkg.tar.gz

should work
-edit- added fakeroot to the upgrade line

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jacques · 2007-09-20 17:06:10

To get everything else working, I need to update pacman. Im currently running 2.9.7, which is what's included on the latest boot cd.

I can't update pacman simply doing pacman -S pacman, because I have a few unresolvable dependencies {fakeroot, libarchive, and libdownload}.

How do I go about updating them? And once that is done, will I be able to pacman -S pacman and grab the new version, or will I have to grab it from some other source?

Thanks in advance,
Jacques

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stonecrest · 2007-09-20 17:52:35

jacques wrote:

To get everything else working, I need to update pacman. Im currently running 2.9.7, which is what's included on the latest boot cd.
I can't update pacman simply doing pacman -S pacman, because I have a few unresolvable dependencies {fakeroot, libarchive, and libdownload}.
How do I go about updating them? And once that is done, will I be able to pacman -S pacman and grab the new version, or will I have to grab it from some other source?
Thanks in advance,
Jacques

http://www.archlinux.org/news/320/

Cerebral · 2007-09-20 18:11:44

jacques wrote:

To get everything else working, I need to update pacman. Im currently running 2.9.7, which is what's included on the latest boot cd.
I can't update pacman simply doing pacman -S pacman, because I have a few unresolvable dependencies {fakeroot, libarchive, and libdownload}.
How do I go about updating them? And once that is done, will I be able to pacman -S pacman and grab the new version, or will I have to grab it from some other source?
Thanks in advance,
Jacques

did you try my suggestion, two posts up?

jacques · 2007-09-20 18:37:14

I can get pacman, after that it says:

failed downloading libarchive-2.2.6-1.pkg.tar.gz from ftp.sixnix.net: 550 Can't open libarchive-2.2.6-1.pkg.tar.gz: No such file or directory

Then, error: failed to download ftp://ftp.sixnix.net/pub/archlinux/core … pkg.tar.gz

Thanks for the help though!

Cerebral · 2007-09-20 18:53:48

oh, there were package version bumps. Try again - I updated the line. (alternatively, you can just point your web-browser at ftp://ftp.sixnix.net/pub/archlinux/core/os/i686/ and just download libarchive/libdownload/pacman/fakeroot from there yourself, and install them with pacman -U off your local system)

jacques · 2007-09-20 19:06:14

Thanks Cerebral, that worked!

I had to add acl and attr to get it working, but, it finally upgraded everything

So far, everything else seems to be working fine, as in, most of the packages Im looking for are there, etc.

Again, thanks for all the help!

mechmg93 · 2007-09-23 14:37:06

jacques wrote:

Im having problems updating pacman itself. I know everyone has said wait for the servers to sync, but, hasn't there been enough time for that to have happened already?
Once Im finished the base installation, I try and update pacman, but, Im never able to download the new version. It runs through the server lists, but doesn't connect. However, I know I am connected as Ive downloaded other files...
Any idea what's up?

i had the same problem 2/3 times i tried this morning. it's very weird.

i did a pacman -Syu but it did not find latest pacman. the third time i tried the installation all went fine. and -Syu found the latest version of pacman.

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