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risto3

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Registered: 2016-09-27

Posts: 36

potention problem with some mirrors: pacman says there is nothing to d

Found it strange that pacman (and checkupdates) was saying for over a week on my server that there was nothing
to do.
So I copied the mirror list from my dev machine to the server and it worked immediately.

Here is the pertinent part of the diff:
/etc/pacman.d$ diff -y --suppress-common-lines mirrorlist mirrorlist.sav
Server = https://archlinux.vi-di.fr/$repo/os/$arch                     | #Server = https://archlinux.vi-di.fr/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = https://mirror.oldsql.cc/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch        | Server = https://mirror.oldsql.cc/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = https://mirror.wormhole.eu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch   | Server = https://mirror.wormhole.eu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://arch.yourlabs.org/$repo/os/$arch                   | #Server = https://arch.yourlabs.org/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch        | #Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Something wrong with some or all uncommented servers on the right hand side?

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,645

Re: potention problem with some mirrors: pacman says there is nothing to d

https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 29,532

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Re: potention problem with some mirrors: pacman says there is nothing to d

That diff is not very informative - what are the common lines that were suppressed?  Only the first mirror in the list that responds is used, so from your description of the symptoms, yes something is wrong with one of the mirrors in your old list: the first one.  But the content of your post does not make it clear whether or not that problematic mirror is on the right hand side of that diff output.

And as a reminder, you were informed about using code tags in your last thread.  Please put that advise to use.

Last edited by Trilby (2019-05-11 19:03:49)

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