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whaler

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From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2008-03-25

Posts: 324

[Solved] Package Database vs. Repositories?

Pacman has not offered me any updates since 17 September. This is not a long period, granted, but I notice that e.g. Inxi is version 2.2.3-1 on my system, and doing a 'pacman -Ss' gives the same version, whereas the Archlinux Package Database lists Inxi with version 2.2.5-1 from 2014-09-17.

What does this mean? Are updated packages beling delayed before being distributed to the relevant repositories, or is something broken in my pacman?

Last edited by whaler (2014-09-20 18:31:17)

ugjka

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From: Latvia

Registered: 2014-04-01

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Re: [Solved] Package Database vs. Repositories?

Maybe the server you are using is not syncing with the mothership anymore. Try using a different server.

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ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: [Solved] Package Database vs. Repositories?

If it is not a zombie server, then, as a sanity check, verify that you are using the -Syu flags.

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apg

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Registered: 2012-11-10

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Re: [Solved] Package Database vs. Repositories?

Check your mirror: https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/

whaler

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From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2008-03-25

Posts: 324

Re: [Solved] Package Database vs. Repositories?

I ran rankmirrors yesterday, which placed http://mirror.archlinux.no/ first in my list of ten mirrors. Following apg's suggestion I see this mirror is indeed out of sync! Running rankmirrors just now, I got a Swedish mirror on top and updating went smoothly. However, this leads me to another question: I've always thought that pacman would try the next mirror in the list when the first (or former) did not work, but that did not happen in this case. So I am guessing this mechanism only works for mirrors that are down, not mirrors out of sync(?).

Thanks for helpful tips - especially to apg!

Btw - this is my standard update procedure:

# abs
# pacman -Syu
(I save/append the screen text in an update textfile as it has more info than the standard pacman log)
# updatedb
# locate *.pacnew

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: [Solved] Package Database vs. Repositories?

I've always thought that pacman would try the next mirror in the list when the first (or former) did not work, but that did not happen in this case. So I am guessing this mechanism only works for mirrors that are down, not mirrors out of sync(?).

Correct.