[arch-general] update error(?)

[Francis Gerund]

I did re-generate the mirrorlist using rankmirrors, as shown on the arch
wiki "mirrors" page:

Back up the existing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist:

# cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup

Edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup and uncomment mirrors for testing with
rankmirrors.

Optionally run the following sed line to uncomment every mirror:

# sed -i 's/^#Server/Server/' /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup

Finally, rank the mirrors. Operand -n 6 means only output the 6 fastest
mirrors:

# rankmirrors -n 6 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist



The error mysteriously went away.

But I  do not seen to have rtmpdump installed.  After reading about it, I
am still not sure what it is, or why it would be needed for rankmirrors.
Do the update mirrors use something called RTMP streams?



On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Aaron Caffrey <wifiextender at bitmessage.ch>
wrote:

> On 16/04/15 at 05:26pm, Francis Gerund wrote:
>
>> Just recently did:
>>
>> sudo pacmatic -Syuv
>>
>> and got:
>>
>> :: Synchronizing package databases...
>> error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from arch.localmsp.org :
>> Connection
>> timed out after 10000 milliseconds
>> core is up to date
>> error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from arch.localmsp.org :
>> Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds
>> extra is up to date
>> error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from arch.localmsp.org :
>> Connection timed out after 10000 milliseconds
>> community is up to date
>> :: Starting full system upgrade...
>> resolving dependencies...
>> looking for conflicting packages...
>>
>> Packages (3) gdm-3.16.1.1-1  libgdm-3.16.1.1-1  llvm-libs-3.6.0-5
>>
>> Total Download Size:    8.77 MiB
>> Total Installed Size:  38.01 MiB
>> Net Upgrade Size:       0.23 MiB
>>
>> :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n
>>
>>
>> So, I chose NO,  then per the wiki I updated the mirrorlist, and once the
>> mirrorlist wsa updated, I did:
>>
>> sudo pacmatic -Syyuv
>>
>> and got:
>>
>> Root      : /
>> Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf
>> DB Path   : /var/lib/pacman/
>> Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
>> Lock File : /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
>> Log File  : /var/log/pacman.log
>> GPG Dir   : /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
>> Targets   : None
>> :: Synchronizing package databases...
>> core                                121.4 KiB  1167K/s 00:00
>> [##################################] 100%
>> extra                              1800.4 KiB  4.00M/s 00:00
>> [##################################] 100%
>> community                             2.6 MiB  4.41M/s 00:01
>> [##################################] 100%
>> :: Starting full system upgrade...
>> warning: gdm: local (3.16.1.1-1) is newer than extra (3.16.1-3)
>> warning: libgdm: local (3.16.1.1-1) is newer than extra (3.16.1-3)
>> there is nothing to do
>>
>> Huh?  why:
>>
>> warning: gdm: local (3.16.1.1-1) is newer than extra (3.16.1-3)
>> warning: libgdm: local (3.16.1.1-1) is newer than extra (3.16.1-3)
>>
>> I again did:
>> sudo pacmatic -Syyuv
>>
>> and got the same exact result.
>>
>> Note that at the time this is posted, archlinux.org does not seem to show
>> gdm 3.16.1-3 or libgdm 3.16.1-3,
>> just gdm 3.16.1.1-1 and libgdm 3.16.1.1-1
>>
>> So, what to do?
>>
>
> Hello Francais,
>
> Generate new ranked mirrors via **rankmirrors -n 30
> /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist**
>
> Make sure that you have "rtmpdump" installed. For more information
> please visit https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors#List_by_speed
>
> Best regards,
> Aaron Caffrey
>