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mhn2

Member

Registered: 2022-11-19

Posts: 5

Community repository no longer updating

It's been a few days that whenever I ran "pacman -Syu", it was saying "community is up to date". Which is weird because community used to be the repository which was always out of date when I ran "pacman -Syu".
So after some searching I decided to run "pacman -Syyu", and it's telling me the community repository is only 45B size. Why is it like this? Are my mirrors broken? Did a change to how pacman repositories work happened and now the community repository is redundant?
What's going on?

My mirrorlist:

Server = https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

My pacman.conf:

#
# /etc/pacman.conf
#
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives

#
# GENERAL OPTIONS
#
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir     = /
#DBPath      = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir    = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile     = /var/log/pacman.log
#GPGDir      = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
#HookDir     = /etc/pacman.d/hooks/
HoldPkg     = pacman glibc
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -L -C - -f -o %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
Architecture = auto

# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg   =
#IgnoreGroup =

#NoUpgrade   =
#NoExtract   =

# Misc options
#UseSyslog
Color
#NoProgressBar
CheckSpace
#VerbosePkgLists
#ParallelDownloads = 5

# By default, pacman accepts packages signed by keys that its local keyring
# trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.
SigLevel    = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
#RemoteFileSigLevel = Required

# NOTE: You must run `pacman-key --init` before first using pacman; the local
# keyring can then be populated with the keys of all official Arch Linux
# packagers with `pacman-key --populate archlinux`.

#
# REPOSITORIES
#   - can be defined here or included from another file
#   - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
#   - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
#   - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
#     have identical names, regardless of version number
#   - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
#   - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
#
# Repository entries are of the format:
#       [repo-name]
#       Server = ServerName
#       Include = IncludePath
#
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
#

# The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the
# repo name header and Include lines. You can add preferred servers immediately
# after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors.

#[testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

#[community-testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
# enable the multilib repositories as required here.

#[multilib-testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# An example of a custom package repository.  See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs

3beb6e7c46a615a

Member

Registered: 2021-03-27

Posts: 165

Re: Community repository no longer updating

You need to read the news See https://archlinux.org/news/git-migration-announcement/

mhn2

Member

Registered: 2022-11-19

Posts: 5

Re: Community repository no longer updating

Ohhhhhhhhhh. Yes you are right I really should start reading the news from now on.
So if it's going to be empty, should I just disable it in my pacman.conf?

skunktrader

Member

From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,590

Re: Community repository no longer updating

Ohhhhhhhhhh. Yes you are right I really should start reading the news from now on.
So if it's going to be empty, should I just disable it in my pacman.conf?

If you had merged the pacnew file that was created when you updated, then you wouldn't be asking that