[arch-general] Pacman fails to update?

[Øyvind Heggstad]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:53:33 -0300
Martín Cigorraga <martosurf7600 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys, I'm having this rare issue:
> 
> several days ago I installed some things from [Testing] and because I
> don't wanna screw-up my system I turned it off.
> Since then, every day I check for updates -roughly 10 days more or
> less- pacman keeps telling it's all up-to-date while I know there's
> nearly everyday an update while not within several hours, at least in
> my system with what I have installed.
> 
> Also I was using packer (a community tool to deal with AUR) which
> keeps telling some installed packages (14) were newer than those found
> in theire repos (not from AUR but from extra and community
> rpositories).
> 
> Today I downloaded latest mirrorlist, did a # pacman -Syy && pacman
> -Suu and gave system is up-to-date which is in fact very strange, I
> mean, come on, there wasn't any updates in all these days? I don't
> think so :p
> 
> But the weirdest thing is afeter issue those orders I did a $ packer
> -Syu to update AUR packages and guess what? I remember I had something
> like 140 packages installed from AUR but this time packer wanted to
> check for 1272 packages lol
> 
> The weirdest thing? I can't install ABS, as you hear it, pacman can't
> found it in extra (or community or wherever it resides).
> 
> So the million question here is: is there *any* way to initialize
> whole pacman and it local repositories cache? I think of it as the
> last resort to may be fix this.
> 
> Thanks!
Can you pastebin your pacman.conf please?

Also, picking packages from testing and then diabeling it might cause
your system to break too :). Either use testing or don't, mixing like
that is generally unsafe.