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Valiant

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Registered: 2009-11-10

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trying to update, Pacman seems to be looking for the wrong package

Hello,

Fairly new user here.  Went to update yesterday.  Pacman -Syu gave me a bunch of kde upgrade targets as well as a few others, including pm-utils. 

Pacman is looking for pm-utils-1.2.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz and not finding it.

A search of Extra shows this package: pm-utils 1.2.6.1-1

So we're talking about 6-1 vs. 6.1-1

I'm assuming this was a typo, but don't know how to resolve the lost package and complete the update.

Any help appreciated.

Steve Corey
Roseville, California

loafer

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Re: trying to update, Pacman seems to be looking for the wrong package

It sounds as though your mirror doesn't have the latest version yet.  Wait for it to sync or try another mirror.

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Valiant

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Re: trying to update, Pacman seems to be looking for the wrong package

I tried 6 different mirrors, all US.  But I can wait longer to see if it is just slow being picked up.

flamelab

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Re: trying to update, Pacman seems to be looking for the wrong package

Try mir.archlinux.fr.

Valiant

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Re: trying to update, Pacman seems to be looking for the wrong package

Thank you for the suggestion.  I added mir.archlinux.fr and pacman found the repository okay but was still unable to find the 6.1-1 file.

loafer

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Re: trying to update, Pacman seems to be looking for the wrong package

Did you do a "pacman Syy" to force it to sync with the new mirror?

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Re: trying to update, Pacman seems to be looking for the wrong package

The Archlinux.fr one has 1.2.6.1, as a matter of fact I installed it like 8 hours ago .

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Valiant

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Re: trying to update, Pacman seems to be looking for the wrong package

# pacman -Syy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                      35.3K  748.6K/s 00:00:00 [########################] 100%
 extra                    443.2K 1225.2K/s 00:00:00 [########################] 100%
 community                365.5K 1219.1K/s 00:00:00 [########################] 100%

then

pacman -Syu 
<ignoring to keep post brief>
error: failed retrieving file 'pm-utils-1.2.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz' from mir.archlinux.fr : Not Found

Pacman is looking for package 6-1.  A search of Extra shows package 6.1-1.  If it was simply a version problem, Pacman would seem to be looking for an older, not a newer version.  This is why I think there is some sort of typo involved.

Just in case anyone might ask...

pacman -Qs pm-utils
local/pm-utils 1.2.5-1

Valiant

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Registered: 2009-11-10

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Re: trying to update, Pacman seems to be looking for the wrong package

Just checked again and did some further looking and I'm convinced there is a problem with the repo, per the attached...

# pacman -Ss pm-utils
extra/pm-utils 1.2.6-1
    Utilities and scripts for suspend and hibernate power management
# pacman -S pm-utils
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): pm-utils-1.2.6-1

Total Download Size:    0.03 MB
Total Installed Size:   0.17 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
error: failed retrieving file 'pm-utils-1.2.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz' from schlunix.org : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'pm-utils-1.2.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz' from mirrors.easynews.com : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'pm-utils-1.2.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz' from archlinux.unixheads.org : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'pm-utils-1.2.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz' from mirrors.hosef.org : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'pm-utils-1.2.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz' from mirrors.gigenet.com : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'pm-utils-1.2.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz' from mirrors.easynews.com : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'pm-utils-1.2.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz' from mir.archlinux.fr : Not Found
warning: failed to retrieve some files from extra
error: failed to commit transaction (Not Found)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

brianhanna

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Registered: 2009-10-30

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Re: trying to update, Pacman seems to be looking for the wrong package

I'm having same problem.  Yesterday I wrote it off as the mirrors not quite up to date but two days now with all of the mirrors???

Valiant

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Registered: 2009-11-10

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Re: trying to update, Pacman seems to be looking for the wrong package

Finally worked for me.  Pacman fetched the correct file on first try just now.  I'm curious what the fix was.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: trying to update, Pacman seems to be looking for the wrong package

> I'm curious what the fix was.
This time I kept my fingers crossed ;-)

But I'm also curious, what could that be?