[Solved] Need some help with reconfiguring Pacman

tolbiac110 · 2015-02-09 16:22:31

Hey everybody,

Since the main Arch FTP has been shutdown, I've been trying to find a decent server/mirror for the packages for my pacman configuration. I've been using the main FTP ever since I began using arch, and so its been difficult trying to find a decent replacement for the package sources. I'm in the United States, and I first tried mirror.us.leaseweb.net but that was returning (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature)) on multilib and could not resolve the host for multilib-testing. I then switched to mirror.kernel.org, but when updating it could not resolve the host and get the database files.

As of this Morning, here is my pacman.conf http://pastebin.com/WZSHfsB0

So at this point, I am stuck in terms of finding a reliable mirror for the packages, and I don't want to continue messing around with something that I don't know much about and wind up breaking something, however I really need to update my packages, and so I'm asking if you could share how you have set up Pacman to work well without using the original FTP, or some good mirrors.

Thank you.

Last edited by tolbiac110 (2015-02-27 03:10:46)

OlafLostViking · 2015-02-09 16:25:48

Assuming you're still keeping an Arch mirrorlist around:

rankmirrors -n 3 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

jasonwryan · 2015-02-09 16:27:23

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors

clfarron4 · 2015-02-09 16:30:17

I typically use whatever is generated by the website tool which generates the mirrorlist by rank, which seems to be fine for me.

tomk · 2015-02-09 16:33:05

Apart from the useful comments above, there are 35 US mirrors in the mirrorlst - why did you only try two of them?

tolbiac110 · 2015-02-09 16:50:50

tomk wrote:

Apart from the useful comments above, there are 35 US mirrors in the mirrorlst - why did you only try two of them?

As of right now, mirrors.abscission.net/archlinux/ is working well for me, connection seems good too.

Last edited by tolbiac110 (2015-02-09 16:59:51)

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