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roobie

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Registered: 2011-07-19

Posts: 10

[SOLVED] Pacman syncs repos when doing -Syu immediately after -Syyu

Hello!

I've tried to find information regarding my problem but I've not found any, so maybe you would care to help me (I hope).

It's not a big deal for me really, but it is annoying. The problem is as follows:

Say I'm about to upgrade my system and I do:

sudo pacman -Syyu 

then pacman syncs with the repos even if they may be up-to-date and upgrades all packages. That's awesome and exactly as it should be. However, were I to execute

 sudo pacman -Syu 

immediately after the

sudo pacman -Syyu

command, it still downloads the repo-data even though it's up to date with a 100% certainty.

As I said, I'm not bothered bery much with this, but it would be nice to fix.

Also, It works on my other computer without problems.

Thanks in advance for any help.

/R

Last edited by roobie (2012-06-09 12:10:52)

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bangkok_manouel

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From: indicates a starting point

Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 1,557

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman syncs repos when doing -Syu immediately after -Syyu

what?

dif

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From: Stalowa Wola, Poland

Registered: 2009-12-22

Posts: 137

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman syncs repos when doing -Syu immediately after -Syyu

My laptop behaved in a similar way, that is it sync'ed repos even if I wrote "pacman -Syu" right away after another system update. When I changed /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist to choose another repos mirror first, the problem got solved. So my advice is, change the mirror in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,672

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Re: [SOLVED] Pacman syncs repos when doing -Syu immediately after -Syyu

Change mirror - especially avoid ftp ones.

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cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,174

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman syncs repos when doing -Syu immediately after -Syyu

You mean it isn't meant to do that? I guess I should look at my mirrorlist, too, then?

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roobie

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Registered: 2011-07-19

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman syncs repos when doing -Syu immediately after -Syyu

"-Syu" is supposed to sync and download repo-data only if they are out of sync. "-Syyu" forces a download of the repo-data even if they seem to be in sync.

dif's & Allan's tip solved it for me, so now im "klad hest". Thank you both dif & Allan.

/R

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