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jdarnold

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reflector dependency needs updating

Not sure where this goes, but I'm installing a new Arch system, so I installed 'reflector' to run rankmirrors. It says after you install it that you should install python if you want to run rankmirrors, but you also need to install curl to run rankmirrors.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: reflector dependency needs updating

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19934

[karol@black ~]$ pacman -Qi reflector | grep Optional
Optional Deps  : curl: for rankmirrors support

Last edited by karol (2010-11-14 18:50:18)

jdarnold

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Re: reflector dependency needs updating

Ahh, good point - bug report. Always forget that for the non-AUR repositories.

Anyway, looking at the PKGBUILD, it certainly doesn't talk about python, and it does mention curl. Then why does it still report python as an optional dependency and nothing about curl? pacan says it is installing the 8/24 version.

karol

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Re: reflector dependency needs updating

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[karol@black ~]$ sudo pacman -S reflector
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): reflector-2010.08.24.1-2 [0,00 MB]

Total Download Size:    0,00 MB
Total Installed Size:   0,01 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                       [########################################] 100%
(1/1) installing reflector                                              [########################################] 100%
Optional dependencies for reflector
    curl: for rankmirrors support

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/commu … reflector/ says the current version is 2010.08.24.1-1 <shrugs>

Edit: I've flagged it out of date, but it's working OK for me - are you using up to date mirrors and do you have an up to date system?

Last edited by karol (2010-11-14 20:07:51)

falconindy

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Re: reflector dependency needs updating

@karol, you've got [xyne-any] enabled in your pacman.conf.

$ pacman -Si community/reflector

Repository     : community
Name           : reflector
Version        : 2010.08.24.1-1
URL            : http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/reflector
Licenses       : GPL
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : perl  perl-xyne-arch  perl-crypt-ssleay
Optional Deps  : python: for rankmirrors support
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : None
Download Size  :   1.88 K
Installed Size :   8.00 K
Packager       : Xyne
Architecture   : any
Build Date     : Mon 23 Aug 2010 11:34:56 PM EDT
MD5 Sum        : 8abb06fcf7a2412ad0396c31a1b7a3ca
Description    : A script to retrieve and filter the latest mirrorlist from the MirrorStatus page.

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karol

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Re: reflector dependency needs updating

@karol, you've got [xyne-any] enabled in your pacman.conf.

<facepalm> Sorry about that.

OK, 1-1 still "needs" python. I don't know why it's like this, Xyne will tell ;P

Xyne

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Re: reflector dependency needs updating

I've updated the version in [community].

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