[SOLVED] Pacman tries to install older revisions of some applcations

ferthelet · 2015-09-25 01:01:07

Dear members,

As I have just finished a new installation with Archboot, I was trying to update the whole system but, to my surprise, pacman tries to install older versions. I don't need LTS or too stable versions since I want to have it completely updated.

In this link there is a picture to better explain myself (in spanish but version numbers talk by themselves):
https://goo.gl/photos/zKRQ1VugJpTg4pN17

Some examples:
> installed linux-firmware is 20150904.xxx, pacman tries to install the 20150722.xxx !?
> installed iputils is 20150815.xxx, pacman tries to install the 20140519.xxx !?

I have updated keyrings and I have used reflector to select the fastest mirrors sorted by score.

Any help will be appreciated.

Last edited by ferthelet (2015-09-26 19:00:11)

Allan · 2015-09-25 02:14:06

Your mirror appears out of date. Comment out the top one and try again.

Silkworm205 · 2015-09-25 09:13:38

pacman-mirrorlist is one of the updated packages. I'd update that package and try a full update again. (Make sure it doesn't save itself as a .pacnew or you might not get the new mirrors)
Have you recently enabled then disabled any of the testing repositories? I got some similar output when I did.

Last edited by Silkworm205 (2015-09-25 09:14:32)

ferthelet · 2015-09-26 16:21:00

Many thanks for your comments, but I did comment out the first mirror, I updated only the mirrorlist, renaming it from .pacnew to mirrorlist, I run reflector several times using the --age = 96 filter and, first, with order = rate and then order = score... all give the same result, downgrading the same programs and trying to install an LTS 4.1.8-1 ...

#reflector --verbose --sort [score | rate] --age 96 --fastest 50 --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Any other comments or suggestions will be very much appreciated...

Scimmia · 2015-09-26 16:40:59

Looks to me like you had testing enabled then disabled it. You can wait for the more updated packages to get moved, or you can downgrade them with pacman -Suu.

lucke · 2015-09-26 16:41:15

Looks to me you had the testing repo enabled.

ferthelet · 2015-09-26 17:27:29

Hello,

Testing repo is not enabled, only core, extra and community. I do want to keep my current versions. What I don't understand is why pacman insists in installing an LTS even though I don't want it??

My current linux kernel is 4.2.0-3 and pacman tries to "update" it to 4.1.6

https://goo.gl/photos/zKRQ1VugJpTg4pN17

lucke · 2015-09-26 17:30:51

Look at https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sor … =&flagged= and https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sor … =&flagged=.

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See with "pacman -Qi linux-lts" if you have linux-lts installed or not.

Last edited by lucke (2015-09-26 17:33:02)

ferthelet · 2015-09-26 17:45:39

Thanks lucke and all for your kind comments,

I have come to understand that Archboot uses testing for installation, definitely.

For example current iputils is 20140519.fad11dc-1, testing is 20150815.1b5d03a-2 (which I have currently installed)
I don't have testing enabled now because I run reflector and it overwrote the original mirrorlist

Thank you again and I wish you all have a nice weekend!

tpowa · 2015-10-22 07:42:29

Archboot is work in progress, when I release a new version normally testing changes are integrated.
For install media a new kernel is included to get latest hardware support.
Most times when I assemble a ISO testing packages are included as well.
You can avoid this by using ftp installation and disable testing repository, this way you get only [core] packages.

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#1 2015-09-25 01:01:07

[SOLVED] Pacman tries to install older revisions of some applcations

#2 2015-09-25 02:14:06

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