On 08/02/2010 02:17 AM, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote:
https://www.archlinux.de/?page=MirrorStatus http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirror http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide#Mirrorcheck_for_up-to-date_packages
It is possible your current installed package list has had no updates, but not likely. You would do all of us a favor by expanding your searches for answers to farther than the mailing list.
Burlynn, thanks... I monitor this list and the arch-dev list. If there is something affecting the ability to update, I expect to see notice in one of those two places. I have added the MirrorStatus to my arch bookmarks, and looking at the list, none of my first configured mirrors are on the list anymore. Thus, pacman would check the old/'no longer updated' mirrors, find that there were no changes and quit without update. That's bad. So it seems that users who haven't seen updates in the past 4days - week, are probably bitten by the same issue. For the US, I added the following at the top of my mirror list: # United States Server = ftp://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64 Server = http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64 Server = http://mirror.yellowfiber.net/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64 Before, manually adding the mirrors, I was using: # United States Server = ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/$repo/os/x86_64 Server = http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/$repo/os/x86_64 Server = http://mirrors.gigenet.com/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64 Server = ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64 Server = http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_6... Server = ftp://mirrors.hosef.org/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64 When I checked for updates again, there were ~ 300M of updates ready. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com