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brianstamper

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Registered: 2021-02-27

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[SOLVED] Package databases all up-to-date after over a week?

It has been >1 week since I last did a pacman -Syu update, and I'm getting the response that all package databases are up-to-date.

I do updates about every 1-3 weeks, and in the past ~year running arch I don't think I've ever seen all of core, extra, community, and multilib say they are already up-to-date after >1 week. With >1000 packages installed, including a full DE (Plasma), etc., this just seems suspect.

So (a) is this not unusual? and (b) how can I check if the databases query is running properly?

If the answer is in the wiki for pacman or system maintenance I didn't recognize it when I looked. I can say I have not set up a local cache for pacman.

Thanks!

Last edited by brianstamper (2022-02-16 16:10:06)

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] Package databases all up-to-date after over a week?

Check the top mirror you have set in your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist is up-to-date and actively syncing.

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

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brianstamper

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Re: [SOLVED] Package databases all up-to-date after over a week?

Okay that was it, thank you.

Notes for other newbies:
I found my first mirror (misaka) on the out-of-sync list and saw that my second mirror was on the successful list, so I just deleted the first one and re-ran pacman and there are plenty of updates happening now. I must have been too careless about dismissing the pacdiff on that file in a recent update without checking that my list was still good. Time to run Reflector again to update my mirror list.

Note to self: Remember to run Reflector every now and then, possibly automate it with systemd (risky?), and edit /etc/pacman.conf to ignore future changes to /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.

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Re: [SOLVED] Package databases all up-to-date after over a week?

FYI

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brianstamper

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Registered: 2021-02-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Package databases all up-to-date after over a week?

FYI

Huh, interesting, wonder what led to that. Well, it's all good, this has led me to focus on improving this part of my system maintenance that I've hardly thought about since doing the install.