It is much nicer to use a proper configuration parser to retrieve the primary mirror, rather than clever hacks using undocumented APIs, especially when their behavior as used then breaks in later releases. Fortunately, pacutils exists now and pacconf handles this quite elegantly. It has since been moved to pacman-git proper. Check if pacman-conf from a new enough version of pacman exists and fallback on pacconf from pacutils. Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> --- arch-nspawn.in | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch-nspawn.in b/arch-nspawn.in index 50ce674..b9c846e 100644 --- a/arch-nspawn.in +++ b/arch-nspawn.in @@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ else cache_dirs=("$cache_dir") fi +pacconf_cmd=$(command -v pacman-conf || command -v pacconf) # shellcheck disable=2016 -host_mirror=$(pacman -Sddp extra/devtools 2>/dev/null | sed -r 's#(.*/)extra/os/.*#\1$repo/os/$arch#') +host_mirror=$($pacconf_cmd --repo extra Server 2> /dev/null | head -1 | sed -r 's#(.*/)extra/os/.*#\1$repo/os/$arch#') # shellcheck disable=2016 [[ $host_mirror == *file://* ]] && host_mirror_path=$(echo "$host_mirror" | sed -r 's#file://(/.*)/\$repo/os/\$arch#\1#g') -- 2.16.1