pacman failing to retrieve and search packages

postlogic · 2005-04-29 14:57:49

Heya

I just added the AUR repos in my pacman.conf, and synced. But whenever I try to search for a package I am absolutely sure is there, I get a not found message. Any ideas?

Thanks

phrakture · 2005-04-29 15:00:22

The community repo does not contain binary packages of everything in the AUR - those packages marked "unsupported" are not in the community repo

postlogic · 2005-04-29 15:27:23

Ok, update:

I can't retrieve ANY packages, nor search for them after I added that repos. All searches turns up as not found.

phrakture · 2005-04-29 15:34:18

what commands are you using?

try this:

# pacman -Sy [to update your databases]
# pacman -Ss pacman [to search for pacman]

postlogic · 2005-04-29 15:35:02

I'm trying pacman -Ss AND -Sy here.

For some reason it just won't search anything but the ones I already had, except the [community] repos. Irks me.

phrakture · 2005-04-29 15:36:23

ok, what does your pacman.conf file look like... and the files in /etc/pacman.d/* (are they empty?)

also, do a "ls" on /var/lib/pacman/

postlogic · 2005-04-29 16:38:38

pacman.conf:

[options]
LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
NoUpgrade = etc/passwd etc/group etc/shadow etc/sudoers
NoUpgrade = etc/fstab etc/raidtab etc/ld.so.conf
NoUpgrade = etc/rc.conf etc/rc.local
NoUpgrade = etc/modprobe.conf etc/modules.conf
NoUpgrade = etc/lilo.conf boot/grub/menu.lst
NoUpgrade = etc/archstats/archstats.conf
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
IgnorePkg = kernel26 mesa ati-drivers flac

[current]
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.de/pub/archlinux/current/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.kegep.tuc.gr/archlinux/current/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de/pub/linux/mirro … ra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.parrswood.net/Mirrors/ftp.arc … ra/os/i686

[extra]
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.de/pub/archlinux/extra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distrib … ra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de/pub/linux/mirro … ra/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.parrswood.net/Mirrors/ftp.arc … ra/os/i686

[community]
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/community/os/i686

[link]
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/tur/link

[xentac]
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/tur/xentac

I dont use pacman.d (copied to pacman.conf) as a matter of taste.

And the last bit:

root(kalliope):/etc/pacman.d$ ls /var/lib/pacman/
community current extra link local xentac

T-Dawg · 2005-04-29 21:07:20

I don't understand, I copied exactly what you had into mine and it works fine. Does pacman show community being updated during -Sy? You may want to check in /var/lib/pacman and look for the communinty folder. Inside you should see the same file names as those inside the community.tar.gz file at your specified server.

phrakture · 2005-04-29 21:10:53

yeah, mine works fine with the exact same settings...

try running a "pacman -Scc" and then an -Syu

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pacman failing to retrieve and search packages

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