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TheAngryAmoeba

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Registered: 2006-11-01

Posts: 7

Http mirrors?

Hi, I have a really stupid question.

I'm behind a firewall at school, and have no access to ftp. 

Obviously this brings an issue with pacman, The only server listed for North America that is http in /etc/pacman.d/current is

 Server = http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/linux/distributions/archlinux/current/os/i686

which results in interesting errors about my local packages being more upto date than the repo

:: xine-lib: local (1.1.3-1) appears to be newer than repo (current/1.1.1-2)
:: xkeyboard-config: local (0.9-1) appears to be newer than repo (current/0.6-1)
:: xorg-font-utils: local (1.0.3-1) appears to be newer than repo (current/1.0.1-1)
:: xorg-fonts-encodings: local (1.0.2-1) appears to be newer than repo (current/1.0.0-1)
:: xorg-fonts-misc: local (1.0.0-3) appears to be newer than repo (current/1.0.0-2)
:: xorg-server: local (1.1.1-6) appears to be newer than repo (current/1.0.2-1)
:: xorg-server-utils: local (1.0.2-2) appears to be newer than repo (current/1.0.1-1)
:: xorg-xinit: local (1.0.3-1) appears to be newer than repo (current/1.0.2-1)
:: xproto: local (7.0.9-2) appears to be newer than repo (current/7.0.5-1)
:: xsmbrowser: local (3.4.0-2) appears to be newer than repo (extra/3.4.0-1)
:: xulrunner: local (1.8.1.1-1) appears to be newer than repo (extra/1.8.0.1-2)
:: xvidcore: local (1.1.2-1) appears to be newer than repo (current/1.1.0-3)
:: yelp: local (2.16.2-1) appears to be newer than repo (extra/2.14.1-1)
:: zip: local (2.32-1) appears to be newer than repo (current/2.31-1)
:: Above packages will be skipped.  To manually upgrade use 'pacman -S <pkg>'
error: unresolvable dependencies:
  gnome-panel: requires libwnck>=2.16.0

I'm wondering if anyone knows which ,if any, of the other servers are accessible with http?

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Http mirrors?

Have a look here:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Http mirrors?

Use this one: http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/

The mirror you're currently using haven't been updated sice May 2006.

TheAngryAmoeba

Member

Registered: 2006-11-01

Posts: 7

Re: Http mirrors?

tomk: Thanks for poining me in the right direction.. I've had some issues with the wiki and its information..

snowman: Crazy .. Thanks for pointing me to that mirror.

codemac

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From: Cliche Tech Place

Registered: 2005-05-13

Posts: 794

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Re: Http mirrors?

Goooooo Hokies Go!

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