Couldn't pacman distribute mirror lists?

couldn't pacman distribute mirror lists during updating?
- first step: fetch new mirror list.
- second step: update now.
Furthermore, if pacman.conf could include an option the way like:
REGION=EUROPE
pacman could prefer to adress mirrors in europe.
Just an idea.

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5885

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Pacman, reflector & mirror list question (seems SOLVED from responses)

When i update mirrors from the home page.. all the mirrors are commented out.. I save it as mirrorlist
then run the reflector command..
does it ONLY rank the number of mirrors i ask for in the United States.. or mirrors right down the list that ive copied and pasted in mirror list??
the reason I ask.. cause i opened up the mirrorlist that got ranked by reflector and 2 of them are from Brazil... and not even in the US list..
should I just copy the US mirrors, then run reflector??
am i doing something wrong??
i dont want to get strange, incompatable packages... I hope I'm asking this correctly..
and when i used to update pacman -Syyu.. it happened in seconds..now it takes almost a min (not that this is alot of time, but its slower then it ever was) and it's only updating via 5 mirrors from the reflector command..
so should i only copy the US mirrors into mirrorlist then run reflector or copy entire mirror list then run reflector..
whats the best way?
dont want to screw up my system
thanks
Last edited by binskipy2u (2010-07-21 18:24:31)

I'm not sure if the app / service is working OK atm. I'd say it's not your fault.
> dont want to screw up my system
I don't thnk you can crash&burn it this way. It's just a list of mirrors.
Last edited by karol (2010-07-21 15:40:21)

[SOLVED] Update Mirror List

Hi all
I was reading a post earlier and it mentioned updating the mirror list at http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/. I generated the list okay, but can someone enlighten me as to what to do with it please?
Thanks
Rich
Last edited by RichAustin (2011-08-12 18:41:52)

You could eat it...
Seriously, copy that newly generated list to either a temp text file or directly into the /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file itself. This also assumes you'll delete the current contents of the mirrorlist file before pasting your new list into it.
After that, just do your pacman -Syu to get the new packages.

HTTP servers inside /etc/pacman.d/current list?

Hello,
Does anybody know the arch servers working throw HHTP :80 ( not FTP: 21) which I can use at the /etc/pacman.d/current list ?
Thanks a lot.

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mouse256 I am not a big pro at networking and because of that I can't understand what wrong witn my NAT routing right now. I just found throw testing that I can not connect o ftp://repo and can connect to http://repo. Tnat is why I need it before I will understand what is the problem with my routing.

Pacman mirror list issue

hello
i was facing a problem with corrupted files when i updated arch with "pacman -Syu" command then i updated "pacman" and i saw there are two files
/etc/pacman.d/
mirrorlist mirrorlist.pacnew
so system is using mirrorlist, should i delete the other fle name mirrorlist.pacnew or replace it mirrorlist?

Never confuse pacnew, pacsave and pacorig.
As Allan said, read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pac … save_Files !
Last edited by arkham (2009-07-25 09:55:22)

What happened to daily mirror lists on main page? SOLVED

it used to be right under the list of packages on the right side.. (update your mirror) something like that..
that option is gone.. and i don't see it anywhere, was it moved if so, where.. ive tried the wiki.. cant find the d/l/text file
Last edited by binskipy2u (2010-08-20 02:19:12)

oh dayum.. my bad.. ill put solved on this.. I don't know why i didnt see it..sorry for the needless post. please delete..

[Solvedish] pacman/pacaur to list available updates in conky

I realize that this is not new idea and that it has been done before, but as always, I want to do it my way.
I've found that pacaur is a great help and since I use it anyway, it's really no bother.
So here is basically what I've done so far:
1. Added "myusername ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/pacman -Sy" to sudoer file.
2. Created a simple script, the gist of which is:
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echo `pacaur -Qu | cut -c4-` >> $destfile
Obviously inspired from something I found at the forum.
It seems to work, though I'm not quite sure if it's able to handle AUR updates, but all in good time.
The out put is almost exactly as I'd like it:
core iputils 20121221-2 -> 20121221-3 (base)
So what's the problem you ask?
Well, I'd like to take it just one step further, that is to compare the results against the news rss feed, so that it may provide a note, should there be issues with a specific upgrade. (I know this isn't foolproof, but would be nice non the less).
However, I'm at a loss as to how I'm supposed to achieve this. I could probably figure something out, and am already in the process of it, but there are so many ways of taking on this challenge, that I'd really like your advice.
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Last edited by zacariaz (2013-08-14 14:46:34)

Xyne wrote:
zacariaz wrote:#!/bin/bash
destfile=~/.pacsync.info
sudo pacman -Sy
echo `pacaur -Qu | cut -c4-` >> $destfile
"pacman -Sy" without "-u" is a bad idea. The explanation can be found in multiple forum threads so I strongly recommend that you do a quick search for them. The proper way to do this is to download the database files to a separate directory. Take a look at how "checkupdates" and "paconky" do it. Obviously I recommend the latter (either on its own or as a starting point), but if you really want to re-invent the wheel then I'm not here to talk out of it.
I'm at a loos as to why pacman -Sy would be a bad idea, but I'll certainly investigate.
And I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel, I'm trying to learn while achieving a result I can be pleased with, without all the nonsense.
anyway, thanks.
I'll get back to you.

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[SOLVED] pacman show dependency list

How can I make pacman show all dependencies of some package?
Last edited by silenc3r (2010-05-21 20:00:12)

Here is a little command I wrote a while back while I was learning sed. It gives a bulk output of all your programs, their dependencies and optional dependencies. I ran into the "fails for when depends extend to multiple lines" issue and this should fix that. I haven't tested it very much so you be the judge.
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libxxf86misc>=1.0.2 libxrandr>=1.3.0 libxxf86vm>=1.1.0
mcpp>=2.7.2
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==================================================================================
Name : xorg-utils
Version : 1.7.0-1
Depends On : None
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Mirror list status site

Hi,
if you want to know the status of a mirror you could look here:
http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html
Since a few weeks i try to monitor and check our mirrors, report those with common problems on bugtracker and try to do researching what problems they have.
The HTML output is not finished, i'm working on it.
Cause the most international arch users read here i make this public announce ;-)

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And excuse my not so good english ;-)
Next week i assume the http output will get more significant and accurate. There are still "artifacts" from the versions history. First checks belongs to the difference of md5sum, mtime and size between the repo db files on ftp.archlinux.org and the mirrors. This take a long time and each run a traffic aroung 70Mb.
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threaded run the connection could not hold established for collecting all necassary informations.
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No, it works fine because the cacert rot certificate is inckuded in Arch. The certificate is valid; opera simply does not know about it (you have to pay a lot of money to get it included). So install the root cert from http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3 (class 1 & 3)
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Okay, so I had everything right, when i rebooted last it reset my network. However, another problem has arised. When I try the command, pacman -Syu it goes through then says I need to get a new version of pacman, so I do and then it gives me,
missing package file list in __________, generating one
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
errors occured, no packages were upgraded.
pacman: /etc/pacman.d/mirror list exists in filesystem.
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Last edited by ethos (2008-04-09 01:21:45)

The first listed mirror for Australia hasn't been updated since august

I've had Arch for about a month and was wondering why my system never seeemed to upgrade anything. Now I know:D
ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/archlinux/ is listed in the official mirror list in both the wiki, and in /etc/pacman.d/mirrors that is installed with any new arch linux install, which is worrying indeed.
I have switched to ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/archlinux/ which is very up to date.
Does anyone know whose attention I should bring this to to get it fixed? May have turned a lot of noob Austrlian and NZ users off Arch already.

The best way to resolve issues like this is through the bug tracker. If you look right under the user name box in the bug tracker, there's a drop down list. Select pacman then press the switch button. Unfortunately, your Arch login won't work there, so you'll need to create an account.

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just did my second install of arch and pacman fails to fetch xorg and alsa etc. saying error: failed to open file /var/lib/pacman/(filename) I have no idea whats going on here, frist install worked fine. the only thing i can think of is maybe the mirror isnt working, I used ftp@dal, canada. any help is very much welcome

Trilby wrote:
OK, this was a very small step in the right direction: you posted the error ... but was that the actual error? Did it really say 'file A' from mirror A, or is that a shorthand you are using?
Either way I also asked for you to post your mirror list so we could see what you have done to it. I'm quite confident now the error is in your mirror list and/or pacman.conf. IF you post those files (the actual content of those files, not a description or interpretation of them) then and only then will anyone be able to help you.
how can i when i have no software installed? yes that is shorthand. and currently its failing on all files. i can hand type all these files in but it will take some time. if im missing something because im new, please say so.

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