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dabd

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Registered: 2008-11-17

Posts: 109

pacman.conf

My pacman.conf looks like this:

[core]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[community]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/x86_64

I included archlinuxfr so I could install yaourt. Isn't this repository a potential source of incompatible packages as stated in http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors ? OTOH if I remove it I won't be able to update yaourt.

Note: If mirrors have been stated directly in pacman.conf, remember to use the same mirror for all repositories. Otherwise packages that are incompatible to each other may be installed, like kernel26 from [core] and an older kernel module from [extra].

Allan

Pacman

From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,672

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Re: pacman.conf

You can install yaourt the old fashion way by downloading the PKGBUILD from the AUR and using makepkg...

But, you should be fine.   Nothing from the archlinuxfr repo will be installed with in place of packages in the official repos.  But of course, that repo is not supported and straight after large rebuilds you may have issues with the packages in it.

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