On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:41:05 +0530 Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

Hello All,

I am having trouble doing a system upgrade. ----------------------------------------------------------- root@presario pacman.d]# pacman -Sy :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date [root@presario pacman.d]# pacman -Su :: Starting full system upgrade... local database is up to date -----------------------------------------------------------

Following is my /etc/pacman.conf ----------------------------------------------------------- [options] HoldPkg=pacman glibc SyncFirst=pacman

[core] #Include=/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Server=ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64

[extra] #Include=/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Server=ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64

[community] #Include=/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Server=ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64 -----------------------------------------------------------

The mirror is updated on nov 29, according to https://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html but I have not updated the system since nove 16-18(somtime that week).

I followed into http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=660210, and forced a package refresh but of no use.

Any ideas?

If 'pacman -Syyu' doesn't work, then try changing the mirror.

Am Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:41:05 +0530 schrieb Shridhar Daithankar:

Following is my /etc/pacman.conf ----------------------------------------------------------- [options] HoldPkg=pacman glibc SyncFirst=pacman

[core] #Include=/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Server=ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64

[extra] #Include=/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Server=ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64

[community] #Include=/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Server=ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64 -----------------------------------------------------------

I tried to look this up but didn't find any info on this: Does the $repo variable work at all, when used in pacman.conf itself, or does it only work in a mirrorlist? So maybe replacing "$repo" with the corresponding repo name would work - or use the include and place your preferred mirror (with the $repo variable) as the first position in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.