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Pratgeek

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Registered: 2011-01-25

Posts: 13

Pacman seldom upgrades community packages.

i am in a college so connect  to the net through a proxy.
i use rankmirror to rank my top 10 mirrors but still pacman upgrades or installs packages with a success rate of about only 20% .
it genrally dounloads and upgrades the small "core pacages" but fails when it comes to opgrading big files...

Someone please help... what is the reason of this flickering nature?

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,175

Re: Pacman seldom upgrades community packages.

Does downloading files manually work? Then you might try to specify an alternative XferCommand in /etc/pacman.conf. Doing that might also give you a better hint about why it fails

Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: Pacman seldom upgrades community packages.

1. Rankmirrors does not check if the mirror is actually up to date and working. Only ever use it on a small list of known good mirrors
2. Don't just say "it fails". Post the whole and exact output from pacman, including the exact command you used to execute it.

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toad

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Registered: 2008-12-22

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Re: Pacman seldom upgrades community packages.

Ha, I'll blow the trumpet for reflector again! I've always got the fastest, most up-to-date mirrors in my mirrorlist

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Pratgeek

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Registered: 2011-01-25

Posts: 13

Re: Pacman seldom upgrades community packages.

tried the alternative Xfer command, i.e uncommented this line and now it's working fine.

XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget -4 --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u

but still  i wanna know why it wasn't working earlier..

Last edited by Pratgeek (2011-02-14 21:25:28)

Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: Pacman seldom upgrades community packages.

No way to know since you have not posted the exact error etc.

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wsims

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Registered: 2010-04-15

Posts: 34

Re: Pacman seldom upgrades community packages.

I had a similar problem not too long ago and reflector was the answer.
Here is a link to my thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=111820