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jackmetal

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From: US

Registered: 2005-06-13

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All repos are gone from pacman.d after sortmirrors -(SOLVED)

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If you run into this, what I did to solve it was to just copy the files from the ABS back into /etc/pacman.d.  If you've run abs, the files are located in /var/abs/base/pacman. 

:shock:

Well, I ran sortmirrors while behind a customers firewall before I thought about it, and it cleared out ALL of the repos from all the pacman.d files..  I have a backup (but due to a bug with 'hdup' that won't allow single file restores from compressed archives - which I alerted the author about earlier in the week), I'm waiting on my bunzip2 to complete on the huge backup file and thought I'd post here while waiting.  ;-)

Is there a list of all the repos somewhere or is there somewhere I can re-download the pacman.d files?

I've searched the forum and the wiki but haven't found them.

Thanks!
JM

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Re: All repos are gone from pacman.d after sortmirrors -(SOLVED)

List of mirrors
I put that up a while back when someone had the same problem. Eventually, it will make its way to the new wiki.

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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: All repos are gone from pacman.d after sortmirrors -(SOLVED)

My question is why the mirrors get deleted when you run sortmirrors... is this a misconfiguration or a bug?

I think I submitted a bug for this a while back, but I don't recall getting any feedback on it.

Dusty

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Shofs

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From: Central Illinois

Registered: 2004-12-15

Posts: 184

Re: All repos are gone from pacman.d after sortmirrors -(SOLVED)

List of mirrors
I put that up a while back when someone had the same problem. Eventually, it will make its way to the new wiki.

I asked once, and it is still annoying.

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nesta

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From: Albuquerque

Registered: 2003-11-21

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Re: All repos are gone from pacman.d after sortmirrors -(SOLVED)

My question is why the mirrors get deleted when you run sortmirrors... is this a misconfiguration or a bug?

I think I submitted a bug for this a while back, but I don't recall getting any feedback on it.

Dusty

This happened to me right after a *fresh install*  -- I instalaled 0.7 base from FTP sources.. installed base packages. Booted into system, downloaded netselect, ran sortmirrors  & Viola! All the mirrors were deleted from /etc/pacman.d/[repo_name]  .... I was able to get them back by reinstalling pacman after deleting all files in the directory.

OUCH.

Any word ??

Brice

Dusty

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Re: All repos are gone from pacman.d after sortmirrors -(SOLVED)

Nothing... start harrassing people:

http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do=details&id=2952

Dusty

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apeiro

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From: Victoria, BC, Canada

Registered: 2002-08-12

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Re: All repos are gone from pacman.d after sortmirrors -(SOLVED)

Fixed the sortmirrors.pl bug for next release.

If anyone wants to hack on netselect to fix the other issue, it would be helpful.  See the bug report above for details.

apeiro

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Re: All repos are gone from pacman.d after sortmirrors -(SOLVED)

Hmm... scratch that.  I didn't fix the sortmirrors bug. 

Turns out it's netselect's fault.  On my laptop, netselect doesn't do its job and gives back no servers.  On two other boxes, it works fine.

Sorry, not much I can do here, unless we find a better tool than netselect.

nesta

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From: Albuquerque

Registered: 2003-11-21

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Re: All repos are gone from pacman.d after sortmirrors -(SOLVED)

Hmm... scratch that.  I didn't fix the sortmirrors bug. 

Turns out it's netselect's fault.  On my laptop, netselect doesn't do its job and gives back no servers.  On two other boxes, it works fine.

Sorry, not much I can do here, unless we find a better tool than netselect.

Why not use a combination of ping and traceroute & parse the results? Although this doesn't look into bandwith caps such as what ibiblio (and I believe nethat.com limits to 350k/s) implements.

Brice