[arch-general] new here and need some help, please...

[Christian Leng]

2009/2/9 Jeffrey Parke <jeffrey.parke at gmail.com>:
> You shouldn't really have to mess with that file. Your repository list is
> kept in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.

perhaps he should manually define the different REPOs such as core,
extra and community, etc.
and make sure pacman knows to retrieve servers in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.
what's more, sometimes some secondary servers are faster than the ones
provided in original mirrorlist.
>
> Maybe you could explain a bit more of what environment in particular you
> want.
>