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Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 10,373

Re: Git migration announcement

Because, again, your mirror hasn't updated yet.

skunktrader

Member

From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,520

Re: Git migration announcement

After doing the update, I assume it is safe to remove the following files

/var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db
/var/lib/pacman/sync/community.files

and get back 30MB of root disk space?

dogknowsnx

Member

Registered: 2021-04-12

Posts: 452

Re: Git migration announcement

After doing the update, I assume it is safe to remove the following files

/var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db
/var/lib/pacman/sync/community.files

and get back 30MB of root disk space?

Sure - see:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … kage_cache (fourth command)

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gps1539

Member

From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2013-11-06

Posts: 131

Re: Git migration announcement

Because, again, your mirror hasn't updated yet.

Any way to check when the mirrors are updated?

Trilby

Inspector Parrot

Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 28,362

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Re: Git migration announcement

That's not a very useful check, but if you literally want to check when your currently selected top mirror updated:

date -d @$(curl -s $(sed  '1{s/Server = //;s/$repo.*/lastupdate/;q' /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist))

But there's really no point in checking - just use any one of the many tools to select up to date mirrors.

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Rediixx

Member

Registered: 2023-05-23

Posts: 2

Re: Git migration announcement

I'm getting this error:

[red@navi-PC ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu "pacman>=6.0.2-7"
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core.db failed to download
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from arch.jsc.mx : Operation too slow. Less than 1 bytes/sec transferred the last 10 seconds
error: failed to synchronize all databases (download library error)

Trilby

Inspector Parrot

Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 28,362

Website

Re: Git migration announcement

And that mirror is on the "out of sync" mirror list.  Pick a functioning mirror.

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