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jordoex

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Registered: 2007-12-16

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Old version of pacman(in coLinux) can't download anything

I'm trying to use arch in coLinux but I can't upgrade anything because pacman is always trying to get nonexsistant files.
For example, when trying to upgrade glibc, it'll say "No such file 'glibc-2.7-7.pkg.tar.gz'."

So, I went and browsed the repos and found out that all of the files are actually appended with -i686 but for some stupid reason pacman isn't putting this in, so then the file that it should have tried to get would be glibc-2.7-7-i686.pkg.tar.gz.
The version of pacman is 2.9.8.

It's also using wget and I think that's the only tool it can use.
the Xfer line in pacman.conf is: XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget -T 5 -t 3 --passive-ftp -c -0 %o %u

Is there anything I can do or does someone have to create a new image?

Last edited by jordoex (2008-01-20 00:14:20)

ise

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Re: Old version of pacman(in coLinux) can't download anything

You can try:

pacman -U <your favourite mirror>/core/os/i686/libarchive-2.4.11-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz <your favourite mirror>/core/os/i686/libdownload-1.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz <your favourite mirror>/core/os/i686/pacman-3.1.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

After that, do the changes in /etc/pacman.conf as it mention after installation. And now, you should be ready for 'pacman -Syu'

Last edited by ise (2008-01-19 20:52:19)

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jordoex

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Re: Old version of pacman(in coLinux) can't download anything

Can't be done.  Someone needs to upload a new image for coLinux, or coLinux has some problems.

While resolving dependancies for pacman 3.1 and right after upgrading glibc to 2.7 (after installing the new kernel and kernel headers), I run into a "FATAL: kernel too old" kernel panic. The only package forced was tzdata.

However, your solution would probably work on a normal install.

I'll just try arch on the partition I was thinking of testing ubuntu hardy on.  Thanks anyways.

Last edited by jordoex (2008-01-20 00:20:34)