pacman -Sy shows everything is up to date, for many days

xiaweitang · 2010-02-12 22:42:04

This doesn't happen before. Is it normal?

n0dix · 2010-02-12 22:47:25

Try with pacman -Syu

ozar · 2010-02-12 22:55:41

xiaweitang wrote:

This doesn't happen before. Is it normal?

Which mirror were you using?

I was having that problem with the kernel.org mirrors so changed to another one and all is well again.

Check here for a listing of the times mirrors re-synced last:

https://www.archlinux.de/?page=MirrorStatus

ataraxia · 2010-02-12 23:00:43

Some mirrors are out of date. Switch to another one.

Also, the mirror status page is not so useful for mirrors.kernel.org, as in Europe it resolves to mirrors.eu.kernel.org, which is currently up-to-date, but in North America it resolves to mirrors.us.kernel.org, which is currently out-of-date.

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n0dix · 2010-02-12 23:05:27

Or try to use: rankmirrors. to pick up the ones that are on.

jowilkin · 2010-02-12 23:12:12

n0dix wrote:

Or try to use: rankmirrors. to pick up the ones that are on.

Rankmirrors will tell you which are on and fast for you, but not which are up to date, which is the issue the OP needs to solve.

Xyne's reflector on the other hand can do this: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/info/reflector

You can also use his powerpill or bauerbill programs which are wrappers around pacman that make use of reflector to use up to date and fast mirrors.

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agapito · 2010-02-12 23:19:27

change mirror

pacman -Syy and then pacman -Syu

Last edited by agapito (2010-02-12 23:26:00)

xiaweitang · 2010-02-17 03:54:59

I changed mirror. and pacman -Syy runs fine. But pacman -Syu always show system is up to date.

no-daemon · 2010-02-17 06:40:31

I was using free.fr and had the same issue, no new packages for 8+ days. Looks that, no matter what you place in pacman.conf, the mirror used is from the first uncommented line in mirrorlist. Me learning ..

grey · 2010-02-17 08:49:28

Go to the web site of your mirror and check when it was last updated. If the mirror is not up to date, switch mirrors. If it is, your system is not in sync with the mirror. Pick a package that is outdated on your system and try to figure out why your are not getting it.

jowilkin · 2010-02-17 15:43:32

xiaweitang wrote:

I changed mirror. and pacman -Syy runs fine. But pacman -Syu always show system is up to date.

Changed mirror to what? That statement is not telling us much. You need to change to an up to date mirror which can be found on the mirror status page linked to earlier in the thread.

xiaweitang · 2010-02-19 06:27:33

I think I messed up the system. Now when I use pacman -Syu or -Syuf, I get a bunch of questions like
Replace kdelibs-experimental with extra/kdelibs? [Y/n]

and no matter wheher I answer yes or no to the questions, I finally get

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
:: kdelibs: requires phonon

and when I tried to install phonon, it says

confilicting with qt, remove qt?

And when I tried to remove qt I get

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: phonon-gstreamer: requires qt
:: phonon: requires qt
:: kdelibs: requires qt
:: skype: requires qt
:: smplayer: requires qt
:: soprano: requires qt
:: strigi: requires qt
:: vlc: requires qt
:: wpa_supplicant_gui: requires qt>=4

How can get out of this loop?

anonymous_user · 2010-02-19 07:04:14

Read:

http://www.archlinux.org/news/483/

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#1 2010-02-12 22:42:04

pacman -Sy shows everything is up to date, for many days

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