[aur-general] Problem on installing yaourt with pacman

[Xavier]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 08:28:58PM +0900, Sebastian Nowicki wrote:
> I think Aaron was talking about how people seems to think that
> the section headings are unimportant and serve as some sort of comment.
> This results in a lot of problems with servers "not working", because
> pacman pics up the first server (from the "previous" heading) and
> succeeds at getting a list.
> 
> I'm not sure why people seem to ignore it. I was familiar with ini
> before I even came to Linux so it was obvious to me. Perhaps people
> think that pacman just scans all the "Server" addresses, and the
> headings are unecessary.
> 

I don't understand either...

Besides, the following comments were added to the default pacman.conf :

# Repository entries are of the format:
#       [repo-name]
#       Server = ServerName
#       Include = IncludePath
#
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
#