[arch-general] pacman error: config file ../mirrorlist, line 193: directive 'Server' not recognized

[David C. Rankin]

On Wednesday 14 October 2009 04:21:04 pm Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:18 PM, David C. Rankin
> 
> <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 October 2009 01:38:30 pm Aaron Griffin wrote:
> >> I have a feeling you uncommented something (testing?) in
> >> /etc/pacman.conf, but didn't uncomment the header for the repo:
> >>
> >> #[testing]
> >> Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
> >>
> >> This is wrong. The [testing] needs to be uncommented too
> >
> > I have a feeling you are RIGHT -- as usual ;-) Thanks!
> 
> This is an amazingly common error, for some reason. I think that if a
> person is not used to ini-style config files, they don't recognize the
> [foo] as a section header
> 

Now it is documented :-)

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman#Repositories

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