[SOLVED] ndiswrapper requires manual install

Question

Hi all,
For some time now I found that, while the ndiswrapper package is up to date in the repository, pacman -S ndiswrapper and variants seem to sync to a less recent version of the package. Manual downloading the package from the archlinux website works, so it's a problem that can be bypassed. But of course, I'm curious what's going on.
I checked /etc/pacman.conf, and there's no entry of ndiswrapper there, so I don't think I accidentally fudged anything?
Thanks.
Last edited by dumas (2013-06-16 10:15:11)

Answer 1

Another example of the problem:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1285992
After manual upgrade of rxvt-unicode, pacman -Syyu gives
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 103.4 KiB 44.3K/s 00:02 [#####################] 100%
extra 1506.6 KiB 300K/s 00:05 [#####################] 100%
community 1794.7 KiB 76.2M/s 00:00 [#####################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: mplayer2: local (20130428-1) is newer than community (20120729-1)
warning: ndiswrapper: local (1.58-11) is newer than community (1.57-20)
warning: reflector: local (2013-1) is newer than community (2012.7.26-1)
warning: rxvt-unicode: local (9.18-5) is newer than community (9.15-3)
there is nothing to do
Irony with the reflector warning!