[SOLVED] Quick question about mirrorlist.pacnew

halo · 2014-01-08 17:10:56

Is it safe to delete? Does it have to be merged?

I may have stupidly made a rash decision after an update to just delete after a quick glance through a wiki about it.

Is there a way to view with pacman -Q a chronological order or timeline of recently installed packages so I can try to re-install and generate another mirrorlist.pacnew ? (I understand that there is a way to query similar information about individual packages, but I simply don't remember which packages I upgraded last night).

Any help would be appreciated. I want to avoid any hiccups or future issues as my current setup has been super solid.

Last edited by halo (2014-01-08 17:26:46)

GE · 2014-01-08 17:15:34

halo wrote:

Is there a way to view with pacman -Q a chronological order or timeline of recently installed packages so I can try to re-install and generate another mirrorlist.pacnew ? (I understand that there is a way to query similar information about individual packages, but I simply don't remember which packages I upgraded last night).

/var/log/pacman.log

Last edited by GE (2014-01-08 17:18:12)

halo · 2014-01-08 17:17:55

I tried opening last night but it was an unsupported format in all of my editors. I'll try nano or another editor.

Thanks.

I understand the mirror list isn't being generated. It sounds as if the mirrorlist.pacnew just gets rid of ftp servers no being used??

Last edited by halo (2014-01-08 17:19:49)

GE · 2014-01-08 17:19:55

Impossible.

$ file pacman.log 
pacman.log: ASCII text

Just use cat in your favorite terminal instead of a text editor.

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halo · 2014-01-08 17:21:29

10:21:09: This is Geany 1.23.1.
10:21:09: The file "/var/log/pacman.log" does not look like a text file or the file encoding is not supported.
10:21:09: New file "untitled" opened.

halo · 2014-01-08 17:22:11

Will do.

WorMzy · 2014-01-08 17:22:36

If your editor can't handle plain text files, I'd report it to the devs, that's a pretty big bug.

Regarding the pacnew, I usually delete it. If I have issues with my mirrors, I use reflector to generate a new mirrorlist.

halo · 2014-01-08 17:23:14

I opened it up in term. Thanks. Now I'm wondering what's up with geany.

GE · 2014-01-08 17:23:43

halo wrote:

10:21:09: This is Geany 1.23.1.
10:21:09: The file "/var/log/pacman.log" does not look like a text file or the file encoding is not supported.
10:21:09: New file "untitled" opened.

WorMzy wrote:

If your editor can't handle plain text files, I'd report it to the devs, that's a pretty big bug.
Regarding the pacnew, I usually delete it. If I have issues with my mirrors, I use reflector to generate a new mirrorlist.

Exactly!

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alphaniner · 2014-01-08 17:23:46

My log is not plain ASCII text:

$ file /var/log/pacman.log
/var/log/pacman.log: Non-ISO extended-ASCII text

OT: I have mirrorlist in NoExtract because I regularly generate it manually.

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GE · 2014-01-08 17:25:14

alphaniner wrote:

My log is not plain ASCII text:

$ file /var/log/pacman.log
/var/log/pacman.log: Non-ISO extended-ASCII text

Could it be a locale thing?

halo · 2014-01-08 17:26:16

Marking solved. Thanks for the pointers. I'll review geany later and if its not user error, I'll put a bug report in.

Scimmia · 2014-01-08 17:26:20

No big deal, as long as you don't change your mirrors. If you do change your mirrors, you just won't have the new ones and may have old, inactive ones still in the list.

If you use something like reflector, you don't need it at all. If you want it back, https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … mirrorlist

alphaniner · 2014-01-08 17:26:37

@GE:

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

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GE · 2014-01-08 17:30:40

Nop. That's not it then. I changed the locale setting, rebooted, updated (pacman) and the file type didn't change.

alphaniner · 2014-01-08 17:38:29

While it's strange, I don't have any problems viewing or parsing it. I only mentioned it for OP's sake, but it's probably not related after all: geany has no problem opening mine.

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halo · 2014-01-08 17:52:02

Mine shows up as:

file pacman.log
pacman.log: data

alphaniner · 2014-01-08 18:38:30

That pretty well explains why geany couldn't or wouldn't open it.

halo · 2014-01-08 22:33:26

Why do we have different formats? Does this have anything to do with options picked (such as language format- I see someone else has a non-SO format, while one has plain ascii, and mine being data- or perhaps something else? I'm probably a mile off the mark).

edit: fuuu der der @GE already brought up locale which it obviously isn't as I am using UTF as well.

Last edited by halo (2014-01-08 22:36:30)

alphaniner · 2014-01-09 14:17:25

I started a thread about this. It seems differing formats are the norm, but most people agree 'data' doesn't seem right.

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