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QuartzDragon

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Registered: 2012-12-24

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[SOLVED] mkarchiso error "no servers configured for repository"

Trying to build a custom Arch Linux ISO, but I keep running into this bizarre error:

> :: Synchronizing package databases...
> error: failed to synchronize all databases (no servers configured for repository)

The pacman.conf I'm using for my ArchISO profile specifies "/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" as its sources for every repo, and I know there are servers configured, because synchronizing the repos works normally outside of mkarchiso.

Looking at the mkarchiso script, I presume pacstrap is the one messing up somehow here, but I don't know how to fix it.

Last edited by QuartzDragon (2023-06-16 10:18:16)

nl6720

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Re: [SOLVED] mkarchiso error "no servers configured for repository"

Post your archiso profile's pacman.conf and /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.

QuartzDragon

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Re: [SOLVED] mkarchiso error "no servers configured for repository"

Mind you... last time I built a custom Arch Linux ISO was before the big Git repo update, though I'm not sure how relevant that is...

QuartzDragon

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Re: [SOLVED] mkarchiso error "no servers configured for repository"

Post your archiso profile's pacman.conf and /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.

pacman.conf ~ https://invent.kde.org/-/snippets/2704

/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist ~ https://invent.kde.org/-/snippets/2705

nl6720

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Re: [SOLVED] mkarchiso error "no servers configured for repository"

Works for me™.
Though it fails later because of FS#78788, but that's after the "Synchronizing package databases" step.

QuartzDragon

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Re: [SOLVED] mkarchiso error "no servers configured for repository"

Works for me™.
Though it fails later because of FS#78788, but that's after the "Synchronizing package databases" step.

Can you share your ArchISO pacman.conf and mirrorlist? Maybe I can get some guidance from there.

nl6720

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Re: [SOLVED] mkarchiso error "no servers configured for repository"

I used the ones you posted.

QuartzDragon

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Re: [SOLVED] mkarchiso error "no servers configured for repository"

I used the ones you posted.

Oh. That's even more confusing. Time to check my setup.

QuartzDragon

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Re: [SOLVED] mkarchiso error "no servers configured for repository"

I used the ones you posted.

Have you tried with a fresh ArchISO releng profile?

nl6720

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Re: [SOLVED] mkarchiso error "no servers configured for repository"

Yep. The pacman.conf and /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist were the only things I changed when testing it.

An unmodified profile works too:

$ sudo mkarchiso -v -r -w /tmp/archiso-tmp -o /tmp/archiso-out -m 'iso' /usr/share/archiso/configs/releng

QuartzDragon

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Re: [SOLVED] mkarchiso error "no servers configured for repository"

Okay, a fresh ArchISO profile works... now to figure out what screwed royally for me.

nl6720

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Re: [SOLVED] mkarchiso error "no servers configured for repository"

Perhaps something in packages.x86_64 is specified with an unconfigured repository, e.g. "mycustomrepo/somepackage".