On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:53:33 -0300 Martín Cigorraga <martosurf7600@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
