[SOLVED] custom repo e new pacman

I just updated pacman, and I noticed that when syncing the repos the progress bar for my local repo isn't displayed anymore as well as the "repo is up to date" message when no new version is detected.
Anyway, the local repo is updated just fine, since I can install the new packages added. Something is changed maybe in the config file syntax? I couldn't find anything.
Last edited by daneel971 (2008-08-09 11:59:12)

Yeah, different bug. There is a patch in the git repo if you really can't wait for the fix: http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=pacman … h=4476598e

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New pacman - NoUpgrade obsolete?

I noticed some time ago that there was a new version of pacman, and I'm glad to see it in the repos today.
One of the new features is that by default, pacman will keep your modified config file, and save the new config as a .pacnew, which i'm sure will please many, many people (it's one of the biggest complaints I hear about pacman, although things have been quiet for some time).
Anyway, I installed it, and noticed the new pacman.conf still has NoUpgrade lines. The default behaviour now is basically NoUpgrade, so I'm wondering if this is now obsolete.
While I defended pacman's behaviour--overwrite user-modified config with a new one--to the death, I'm still glad to see this change. In a majority of cases, it makes system maintenance simpler.

NoUpgrade is still working.
If you have some config file, that you never modified (you just leaved default config), and you don't want it to be upgraded by Pacman automatically due to changes in package's default config - you may use NoUpgrade in this case (who knows, maybe package's new default config file will have some changes that can affect security and you are very paranoid sysadmin ).
I think it is safe to remove all NoUpgade options from default pacman.conf.
If user changes some of the files listed there then they will be not overwritten by Pacman 2.9.8+ anymore.
If user didn't make any changes in those files then new versions of those files will most likely be the same or just slightly modified, so all will be working fine.
When I was upgrading my system with the new Pacman I noticed that rc.local was not upgraded but rc.local.pacnew was made. But I've never modified my rc.local (as far as I remember). And sometimes there was no changes in th default rc.conf from initscripts, but rc.conf.pacnew was always created. So I removed rc.local and rc.conf from NoUpgrade and now pacman does not create useless rc.local.pacnew on each initscripts upgrade and does not create rc.conf.pacnew when the default rc.conf was not changed.
Then I removed my quite large NoUpgrade list completely. And since that time Pacman hasn't done any mistake. It upgrades only untouched config files and saves .pacnew for config files that received some changes in defaults (like the latest changes of mkinitrd.conf and Apache's config files). I like this behaviour very, very much. It is much easier for me to upgrade all my 5 systems now (4 of them are on VMware, one in my second company, and very soon there will be one at home). 8)
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Sunny

Hi Sunny,
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1/5/10      801                                     1
1/5/10      802                  1                  1
1/5/10      803                                     1
1/6/10       801
1
1/6/10      804                   1                  1
1/6/10       803
1
1/6/10       802                                      1
1/7/10       801                                       1
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[SOLVED] Question about new pacman upgrade

The release notes ay that "Installing package with -U is now smart like -S — dependencies and conflicts are now handled"
So, if I am understanding this correctly... when I am installing something from the AUR, I only need "makepkg -i", instead of "makepkg -si"?
Last edited by dfetter88 (2010-06-23 11:38:37)

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Pacman seg fault(Solved but with comments on pacman-db-upgrade)

Performed an install from FTP and booted into root login.
Performed pacman -Syu and received report system up to date.
Performed downloads via pacman of twelve packages including xorg and xfce4.
Performed download of abs package.
Downloaded abs repos.
Modified abs extra vlc package and performed pacman -U install of modified package.
Pacman working well at this point.
Rebooted.
After reaching xfce4 Desktop, attemptd to install firefox.
Pacman -S firefox produced..... /usr/bin/pacman/ report(forget the exact error)
Subsequent trials with ...pacman -U .... produces seg fault.
Cannot use pacman. All other programs seem to perform correctly. Perhaps have lost DNS.
Cannot perform ...pacman -Syu --debug.....segfaults.
Last edited by lilsirecho (2011-07-19 18:19:49)

Solved the difficulty but have no idea what can be done to prevent it from occuring for another user.
It seems that the db did not get upgraded when the ...pacman-db-upgrade ...command was executed. There was no statement for ..."pre 3.5 db" upgrade....while executing the command.
After re-install, the upgrade command performed correctly and pacman now performs correctly after reboots.
The question comes up as to what to do if the upgrade command does not work correctly and whether some indicator of correct response should appear in the beginners guide. Additionally, what can be done in the event that the upgrade command fails to meet the correct response.
These questions will in time be resolved by a new .iso but the present exposure is amazing in its consequences!
Perhaps the upgrade command is also a function of properly synced mirrors but the command requesting the upgrade was ...pacman -Syy... the mirror sync function!
What do we have...catch22?
The resultant segfaults make sense if the pacman sync db is not upgraded.
How is a user to know the upgrade failed? What to do about such a condition?
Marking this thread as solved ...with comments...

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[SOLVED] Black Screen in new Installation (Intel GMA 3650)

Hi everybody,
I installed Arch on my new DN2800MT system using the Archboot installer (2012.04-2) for UEFI boot support. GRUB2 is running fine after all. The only problem is, that the screen turns black/completely off during the boot process. The installation seems to work in principle: if I wait a while, log in and type "shutdown -h now" or "reboot" the system shuts down or reboots. Just the output seems to be broken.
A video can be found on YouTube. A screenshot immediately before it turns black:
The last lines are
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Interestingly the boot of the Archboot DVD also starts with the screen turning black. Some time later the the boot process seems to fix the issue at hand: the screen comes back alive. I also posted a video of that process on YouTube. The messages on the screen when it turns back on:
This behavior of Archboot indicates that this problem can be solved somehow. I would appreciate every hint on what's wrong a lot. For modification of the installed system I can boot Archboot, mount the installation and chroot into it.
Thanks a lot guys!
Alphasix
Last edited by alphasix (2012-06-25 21:43:00)

alphasix wrote:
Yeah you're right: it's totally hopeless. I now basically have two options: using an old AIF to install an older version of arch with a local repo, kernel <= 2.6.37 and Xorg <= 1.9 to get the old Intel poulsbo driver running or using Windows 7. I think the latter is the better choice.
There is only one very faint hope for a crazy solution: in the dependencies of the old pulsbo driver itself the kernel version isn't mentioned. What do you think of the idea of using the new gma500_gfx module with fbdev for xorg and the old binary driver just for VAAPI? VAAPI is in principle independent of xorg. So in theory this works, right?
[EDIT] This crazy idea has one flaw: the old drivers are i686-only (because of the binary blobs). At that time all systems with poulsbo graphics controller were 32-bit so that is reasonable. I impudently asked Intel support for the two binary blobs compiled for 64-bit. I mean: they sell a fully integrated system incompatible with their own binary driver for linux. Let's wait for the answer. If they turn me down, it means bye-bye to Linux .
I just received (today) a CedarTrail Netbook (Atom N2800) and discovered with horror that the graphic chipset is not supported. Please let me know if Intel will give you an answer since I was thinking of directly contact them too.
Btw, how did you contact them, can you give me a mail/website/other?
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[Solved] errors with keys after pacman update?

Hi,
I installed pacman 4.0.1-4, but now this is what happens when I try and update.
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
(28/28) checking package integrity [######################] 100%
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error: gcc-libs-multilib: signature from "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <[email protected]>" is unknown trust
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Interrupt signal received
When pacman updated it suggested that I run this command,
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I know that usually I would say yes to a key and pacman should remember it, but what are all the errors?
Last edited by mich04 (2012-01-20 17:19:26)

# /etc/pacman.conf
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives
# GENERAL OPTIONS
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir = /
#DBPath = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
# If upgrades are available for these packages they will be asked for first
SyncFirst = pacman
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -C - -f %u > %o
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
Architecture = auto
# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg =
#IgnoreGroup =
#NoUpgrade =
#NoExtract =
# Misc options (all disabled by default)
#UseSyslog
#ShowSize
#UseDelta
#TotalDownload
#CheckSpace
# REPOSITORIES
# - can be defined here or included from another file
# - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
# - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
# - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
# have identical names, regardless of version number
# - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
# - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
# Repository entries are of the format:
# [repo-name]
# Server = ServerName
# Include = IncludePath
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
# The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the
# repo name header and Include lines. You can add preferred servers immediately
# after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors.
#[testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
#[community-testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
# enable the multilib repositories as required here.
#[multilib-testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs
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Solved flicker problem with newer fglrx drivers

This has been annoying me since the move from 8.29 to 8.30: I have an integrated Xpress 200 on my laptop, and newer proprietary drivers caused the screen to flicker. This has caused me to stick with the older drivers, which restricted upgrades to X.org and the kernel. I was misled by some posts on the Internet to believe that this was the result of using custom modelines.
I have finally solved the problem yesterday. I am posting my findings in case anyone else has been suffering from the same behaviour.
The newer drivers come with an ACPI script, installed under /etc/acpi. The script is invoked every minute and inspects the current power status (i.e., A/C or battery). It then invokes
aticonfig --set-powermode=[MODE]
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Obviously, there is no need to run the script if the power mode has not changed since the last call. I have therefore modified the script to first check the current driver power mode, and execute the mode command only if a new setting is required.
I hope this helps someone.

I need my hand held a bit here...
this seems to be the problem I'm having, ie the ac/battery event being called too frequently, but have no idea how to edit the script. I'm on an asus w3n, will it help to replace apci with asus-laptop and apcid daemon...or just add those and leave acpi daemon?
apologies for my numbnut newbie-ness.

[SOLVED]openstudio is a new AUR package, requesting review of PKGBUILD

Hi,
I have been working on a simple desktop environment for Arch Linux, called OpenStudio.se . This is the first time I have made a PKGBUILD and it would be great if anyone with some more experience could help me verify that the PKGBUILD is correct. I have tested it on both x86_64 and x86 systems and it works well and the package installs correctly with pacman.
If you want to check out the desktop environment, visit www.openstudio.se
BR
Mikael
Here is my PKGBUILD :
# Maintainer: Mikael Nordvall <[email protected]>
pkgname=openstudio
pkgver=0.4
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Scripts to install and configure a simple, lightweight desktop environment for Arch Linux"
arch=(any)
url="http://www.openstudio.se/de/"
license=('GPL3')
source=(http://www.openstudio.se/de/source/$pkgname.tar.gz)
md5sums=('dc085cf28b74a541833a680603fa85be') #generate with 'makepkg -g'
package() {
mkdir $pkgdir/etc
mkdir $pkgdir/etc/openstudio
mkdir $pkgdir/usr
mkdir $pkgdir/usr/bin
mkdir $pkgdir/usr/share
mkdir $pkgdir/usr/share/man
mkdir $pkgdir/usr/share/man/man1
cp -r $srcdir/$pkgname $pkgdir/usr/share/
cd $pkgdir/usr/share/$pkgname/
cp ./scripts/openstudio $pkgdir/usr/bin/
cp ./library/manpage/openstudio.1.gz $pkgdir/usr/share/man/man1/
Last edited by zkeng (2011-10-09 10:27:25)

Thank you very much for the input Stefan. I will update the PKGBUILD according to your suggestions.
About the empty dir /etc/openstudio
The openstudio package contains a system configure script. When executed this script will set-up some global config files (shared for all users) in this dir. The reason why I created it already during installation is because I do want it to be removed if you decide to remove the openstudio package. The reason why it is empty at the beginning is because I do not want to over-write its content when openstudio package is upgraded.
Maybe there is another standard way of solving this kind of issue, but to avoid the error you mentioned about an empty dir I made sure an info file is copied to the dir during install.
New PKGBUILD (with new md5sum) :
# Maintainer: Mikael Nordvall <[email protected]>
pkgname=openstudio
pkgver=0.4
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Scripts to install and configure a simple, lightweight desktop environment for Arch Linux"
arch=(any)
url="http://www.openstudio.se/de/"
license=('GPL3')
source=(http://www.openstudio.se/de/source/$pkgname.tar.gz)
md5sums=('4f9dec211a1b082d91251fa0e73810db') #generate with 'makepkg -g'
package() {
install -d $pkgdir/usr/share
cp -r $srcdir/$pkgname $pkgdir/usr/share/
cd $pkgdir/usr/share/$pkgname/
install -Dm755 ./scripts/$pkgname $pkgdir/usr/bin/$pkgname
install -Dm644 ./library/config/readme_etc_$pkgname \
$pkgdir/etc/$pkgname/readme_etc_$pkgname
install -Dm644 ./library/manpage/$pkgname.1.gz \
$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man1/$pkgname.1.gz
Last edited by zkeng (2011-10-08 18:48:59)

Custom dowload manager for pacman in chroot env

Hello
As this is the place for pacman in general I post here. Feel free to move that thread if you feel it would have a more suitable place.
I'm willing to install Arch on my computer from the live disk of another distro (Tails, based on Debian). I follow these guidelines but an issue is risen because of Tor wich makes resolving DNS less straightforward. Thus I've tried to use the option XferCommand in /etc/pacman.conf in the following way:
XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl --socks5-hostname 127.0.0.1:9050 -C - -f %u > %o
but I just get errors.
# pacman -S arch-install-scripts
warning: database file for 'core' does not exist
warning: database file for 'extra' does not exist
warning: database file for 'community' does not exist
error: target not found: arch-install-scripts
# pacman -Syu
warning: database file for 'core' does not exist
warning: database file for 'extra' does not exist
warning: database file for 'community' does not exist
:: Synchronizing package databases...
sh: /usr/bin/curl: No such file or directory
error: failed to update core (error invoking external downloader)
sh: /usr/bin/curl: No such file or directory
error: failed to update extra (error invoking external downloader)
sh: /usr/bin/curl: No such file or directory
error: failed to update community (error invoking external downloader)
error: failed to synchronize any databases
error: failed to init transaction (error invoking external downloader)
Would you have any idea to solve this problem? Of course I've checked that /usr/bin contains curl with this line:
XferCommand = ls /usr/bin && /usr/bin/curl --socks5-hostname 127.0.0.1:9050 -C - -f %u > %o
but it seems to be very contradictory:
# pacman -Syu
warning: database file for 'core' does not exist
warning: database file for 'extra' does not exist
warning: database file for 'community' does not exist
:: Synchronizing package databases...
bsdtar curl env ex nano pacman ping vi
sh: /usr/bin/curl: No such file or directory
error: failed to update core (error invoking external downloader)
bsdtar curl env ex nano pacman ping vi
sh: /usr/bin/curl: No such file or directory
error: failed to update extra (error invoking external downloader)
bsdtar curl env ex nano pacman ping vi
sh: /usr/bin/curl: No such file or directory
error: failed to update community (error invoking external downloader)
error: failed to synchronize any databases
error: failed to init transaction (error invoking external downloader)
Last edited by Caocoa (2015-04-29 23:13:26)

Here is what I've done:
ARCHI=$(uname -m)
ARCH_MINI="$HOME/tmp_arch"
mkdir "$ARCH_MINI"
cd "$ARCH_MINI"
alias curl="torsocks curl"
curl -O http://mir.archlinux.fr/~tuxce/chroot/archlinux.chroot.$ARCHI.tgz
tar zxf archlinux.chroot.$ARCHI.tgz
cp /etc/resolv.conf "$ARCH_MINI/etc/"
mount -B /proc "$ARCH_MINI/proc"
mount -B /dev "$ARCH_MINI/dev"
mount -B /sys "$ARCH_MINI/sys"
mount -B /dev/pts "$ARCH_MINI/dev/pts"
ARCH_SYS="$ARCH_MINI/mnt"
mount /dev/sda4 "$ARCH_SYS"
mkdir -p "$ARCH_SYS"/var/{cache/pacman/pkg,lib/pacman} "$ARCH_SYS"/{dev,proc,sys,run,tmp,etc,boot,root,home}
mount -B /proc "$ARCH_SYS/proc"
mount -B /dev "$ARCH_SYS/dev"
mount -B /sys "$ARCH_SYS/sys"
lsblk
mount /dev/sda2 "$ARCH_SYS"/boot
mount /dev/sda1 "$ARCH_SYS"/efi
mount /dev/sda5 "$ARCH_SYS"/home
echo 'PS1="(installation) \w \\$ "' > "$ARCH_SYS/root/.bashrc"
chroot "$ARCH_MINI" /bin/bash
The main issue is I can't use pacman:
(Arch mini) / # pacman -Syu
warning: database file for 'core' does not exist
warning: database file for 'extra' does not exist
warning: database file for 'community' does not exist
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mir.archlinux.fr : Could not resolve host: mir.archlinux.fr; Unknown error
error: failed to update core (download library error)
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from mir.archlinux.fr : Could not resolve host: mir.archlinux.fr; Unknown error
error: failed to update extra (download library error)
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from mir.archlinux.fr : Could not resolve host: mir.archlinux.fr; Unknown error
error: failed to update community (download library error)
error: failed to synchronize any databases
error: failed to init transaction (download library error)
Even if I try to copy curl binary from the host to the chroot and pass it socks option (like in my first message) it says:
/usr/bin/curl: No such file or directory
By default, pacman can't resolve repo name:
(Arch mini) / # pacman -Syu
warning: database file for 'core' does not exist
warning: database file for 'extra' does not exist
warning: database file for 'community' does not exist
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mir.archlinux.fr : Could not resolve host: mir.archlinux.fr; Unknown error
error: failed to update core (download library error)
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from mir.archlinux.fr : Could not resolve host: mir.archlinux.fr; Unknown error
error: failed to update extra (download library error)
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from mir.archlinux.fr : Could not resolve host: mir.archlinux.fr; Unknown error
error: failed to update community (download library error)
error: failed to synchronize any databases
error: failed to init transaction (download library error)
If I want to change the adress of the repo in mirrorlist to the resolved IP address
Server = http://91.121.141.57/$repo/os/$arch
it's doesn't work either but says:
(Arch mini) / # pacman -Syu
warning: database file for 'core' does not exist
warning: database file for 'extra' does not exist
warning: database file for 'community' does not exist
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from 91.121.141.57 : couldn't connect to host
error: failed to update core (download library error)
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from 91.121.141.57 : couldn't connect to host
error: failed to update extra (download library error)
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from 91.121.141.57 : couldn't connect to host
error: failed to update community (download library error)
error: failed to synchronize any databases
error: failed to init transaction (download library error)
Last edited by Caocoa (2015-04-30 11:15:15)

[SOLVED] GLIBC_2.16 not found - Pacman broken

Hi all,
I did a packman -Syu yesterday and following instructions relative to glib errors I also performed it by excluding glibc.
This resulting in the problem that now I have old GLIBC ( so I don't have simlink of lib).
After rebooting my system was unable to boot anymore, I did a chroot and a mkinitcpio -p linux and now I can boot the system.
The main problem is that I can't use pacman and a lot of stuff (samba service, firefox, and so on) due to this error:
pacman: /lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.16' not found (required by /lib/libarchive.so.12)
Before opening this new thread I did a lot of searching and I tried I think almost all solutions I've found.
I already tried to use pacman cache for replacing libs, I already tried to downgrade curl...
Any help is very very very appreciated, It's a workstation I'm using for CFD computation in my lab and I'm totally blocked!!! (I mean, CFD works at least )
Thanks in advance, guys.
daron
Last edited by daron (2012-09-27 16:24:43)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … iki:usrlib
Try this from a chroot : pacman -U http://pkgbuild.com/~allan/glibc-2.16.0 … pkg.tar.xz
If that fails, try extracting the 2.16.0-1 tarball to / (and don't forget to reinstall glibc after you've solved the problem) .

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