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bivan

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Registered: 2026-02-03

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[SOLVED] The pacstrap -M option doesn't seem to work

I installed Arch Linux by the latest archlinux-x86_64.iso with

pacstrap -icMK /mnt ...

, the issue: /mnt/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist has all the "Server =" without # at the beginning, as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist (archlinux-x86_64.iso) but not as pacman-mirrorlist-20260406-1-any.pkg.tar.zst -> etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, so I presume the title, a bug?

Last edited by bivan (2026-05-30 06:46:04)

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] The pacstrap -M option doesn't seem to work

Cannot reproduce here.

# pacstrap -icMK /tmp/test base
[...]
# pacman -r /tmp/test -Qkk pacman-mirrorlist 
pacman-mirrorlist: 3 total files, 0 altered files
# head /tmp/test/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
##
## Arch Linux repository mirrorlist
## Generated on 2026-04-06
##

## Worldwide
#Server = https://fastly.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = https://ftpmirror.infania.net/mirror/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = https://mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] The pacstrap -M option doesn't seem to work

doesn't seem to work

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
What's the actual error?

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bivan

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Registered: 2026-02-03

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Re: [SOLVED] The pacstrap -M option doesn't seem to work

I found! After pacstrap -icMK ... I did

pacstrap -U /mnt /home/!/Arch_Linux_KDE/.tar

(a modified yabridge package), the solution is to add M here also:

pacstrap -UM /mnt /home/!/Arch_Linux_KDE/.tar

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Re: [SOLVED] The pacstrap -M option doesn't seem to work

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This thread gained several spam posts today, closing.

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