no updates for at least a week ?

WernerL · 2008-03-25 15:13:05

Hello,

I don't know if its me or pacman but everytime I try to update it says 'local database is up to date'
And filezilla says there IS an update of the prorgam but this time pacman won't update it..

[root@WernerPC werner]# pacman -Syy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
tardo 4.7K 28.7K/s 00:00:00 [#####################################################] 100%
core 23.8K 499.0K/s 00:00:00 [####################################################] 100%
extra 310.5K 290.3K/s 00:00:01 [####################################################] 100%
community 344.9K 468.3K/s 00:00:01 [##################################################] 100%
local database is up to date
[root@WernerPC werner]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
tardo is up to date
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
local database is up to date

Any suggestions? Did I do something wrong or is it that the repositories arn't updated yet ?

Last edited by WernerL (2008-03-25 15:14:03)

Allan · 2008-03-25 15:15:44

Have you tried changing your mirror (in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist)? The one you are using may be out of date.

WernerL · 2008-03-25 17:10:38

All servers are uncommented in mirrorlist..

//edit

choose another mirror in /etc/pacman.d/[core | extra and Community]
It works now, updating.

Last edited by WernerL (2008-03-25 17:22:26)

Eradest · 2008-03-25 17:21:50

It's not primarily about which or how many ones are uncommented, but which one is stated first. Because the first server will be tried first, the second only if the first one fails, and then the third and so on. So you have to move some other mirror to the top to change your preferred mirror.
Try ftp.archlinux.org once to see whether you get updates then because it's the most up-to-date one.

Edit: you have to adjust /etc/pacman.conf to use the mirrorlist, it's more comfortable because you only got to do one change for all the repos. /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew should probably contain the new layout

Last edited by Eradest (2008-03-25 17:24:24)

WernerL · 2008-03-25 17:23:53

Just got it working.
And yes I thought it was something similar to that. Commented a lot mirrors until I got the right one.

praka123 · 2008-03-25 18:23:38

what is the default download manager that pacman is using?(curl?)
in my rc.conf I have uncommented wget line to use wget as downloader.is this the better option?

tigrmesh · 2008-03-25 19:06:01

@WernerL - you might also be interested in this: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44976.

WernerL · 2008-03-25 20:00:52

Wow thanks tigrmesh
Found a fast mirror that was synct today and now I'm downloading 600mb of updates... lol

shining · 2008-03-25 20:25:02

praka123 wrote:

what is the default download manager that pacman is using?(curl?)
in my rc.conf I have uncommented wget line to use wget as downloader.is this the better option?

it's libdownload (fork of freebsd libfetch). And yes, it's better to use that because using a C lib is cleaner than calling an external program.

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