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poiuyt23

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Registered: 2011-10-12

Posts: 76

[solved] Pacman mirrors truncate core, community and extra databases

Fellow Archers-

I have created 2 Archlinux machines for as VirtualBoxes at work - they work great.  Now my boss is looking to make a third machine to back those 2 up and he can't install - pacman gives him truncated databases and then can't find some of the packages for install. 

If I set the /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist to use only ftp.archlinux.org it works great.  Slow, but no problems. 

When using the uwaterloo Canadian mirror and the RIT US mirror (because they are close) I get the truncated database problems. 

I am not using the kernel mirrors as there are bug reports that mirror the behavior I have mentioned. 

There are no errors in /var/log/pacman

Can someone suggest better mirrors to use or some other way to solve this problem?

Thanks!

Last edited by poiuyt23 (2011-12-16 08:39:13)

student975

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From: Russian Federation

Registered: 2011-03-05

Posts: 616

Re: [solved] Pacman mirrors truncate core, community and extra databases

I never have used ftp - rather http only. And never have had a problem

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poiuyt23

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Registered: 2011-10-12

Posts: 76

Re: [solved] Pacman mirrors truncate core, community and extra databases

Using the VT.edu mirror have had no problems thus far marking as solved.

Last edited by poiuyt23 (2011-12-16 08:38:49)