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chakra-user

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Registered: 2010-03-07

Posts: 74

groff local higher than from repositories?

Hi,
      I did a mirror update via reflector script. Copied the output into /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and ran pacman -Syy(to for refresh pkg db after mirror changes) && pacman -Syu(check for updates). I get

[xxxx@jaguar ~]$ sudo pacman -Syy && sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
kdemod-core               60.9K   16.7K/s 00:00:04 [####################################################################################################################################] 100%
kdemod-extragear          13.3K   24.4K/s 00:00:01 [####################################################################################################################################] 100%
kdemod-playground         15.3K   14.1K/s 00:00:01 [####################################################################################################################################] 100%
core                      36.1K   18.9K/s 00:00:02 [####################################################################################################################################] 100%
extra                    448.6K  101.0K/s 00:00:04 [####################################################################################################################################] 100%
community                359.9K   70.5K/s 00:00:05 [####################################################################################################################################] 100%
:: Synchronizing package databases...
kdemod-core is up to date
kdemod-extragear is up to date
kdemod-playground is up to date
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: groff: local (1.20.1-4) is newer than core (1.20.1-3)
local database is up to date
[xxxx@jaguar ~]$

Notice the warning. How can it be that even the latest and most up-todate repository as per reflector is holding old packages. I did not install groff manually.

I even ran sudo pacman -Scc to make sure I have a clean pkg db.

Does anyone know what, how, why?

Last edited by chakra-user (2010-03-13 01:18:30)

chakra-user

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Registered: 2010-03-07

Posts: 74

Re: groff local higher than from repositories?

hmm it seems that the list of servers given by reflector are faulty as contrary to its claim to give the most faster + updated server list, it doesn't. Tried rankmirrors script and that gave me better results. atleast it gave me a mirror which had the latest packages for a change. Maintainer of reflector script needs to check for this inconsistency.