Hi all,

I have reason to believe a package I use (python-polib) was moved from the aur to the official extra repo. I’m now having trouble getting it installed.

The old page gives a 404: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-polib This now seems to be the right source for this package: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/python-polib/

However, I do a # pacman -Syyu python-polib and pacman can’t find the target. Do I need to do something here that I’m missing?

My pacman.conf includes the “extra” repo and it updates during the Syyu command.

    • egsaqmojz@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      absolutely. i’ve tried this on two x86 systems as well, my desktop and laptop. if there’s no quick fix or obvious problem, i’m not above doing a full reinstall to fix this.

      i’ll spin up a vm to test too

      • AxumEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        I suppose you could also clean out cached packages with pacman -Scc and then delete the package database files in /var/lib/pacman/sync so that you know for a fact that you are getting a fresh sync and it not depending on anything cached.

        but the package is certainly there, are you able to directly download it from https://arch.mirror.constant.com/extra/os/x86_64/python-polib-1.2.0-2-any.pkg.tar.zst from a browser so we can rule out any weird dns fuckiness?

        • egsaqmojz@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          yep, dns points me to 108.61.5.83 and i can get there by hostname and address thru the browser. i spun up a new live arch session i built with archiso. still can’t get a hit thru pacman tho. really can’t explain it.

          • Axum
            2·
            3 months ago

            Entertain me, what’s the output of pacman -Qi python| grep Architecture?

              • Axum
                2·
                3 months ago

                this is very, very strange behavior you’re seeing then. I have the following in my /etc/pacman.conf

                [core]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[multilib]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

                Does yours look like that?

                and for mirror list, I have the following mirrors:

                Server = https://mirror.stephanie.is/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://nocix.mm.fcix.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://ohioix.mm.fcix.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mnvoip.mm.fcix.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://arch.mirror.ivo.st/$repo/os/$arch

                these settings yield me the python library just fine

                Edit: the multilib repo is optional in the pacman.conf, as the package you want is in the extra repo.

                • egsaqmojz@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
                  1·
                  3 months ago

                  okay i got it now.

                  was something wrong with the mirror i was using? if so, is there some way to know if i have a “lesser” mirror? or was the arch linux world just going thru a major update today and i had to wait it out?

                  • Axum
                    2·
                    3 months ago

                    My only gut ‘guess’ is that your original mirror was out of date, then you happened to switch to one mid sync potentially.

                • egsaqmojz@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
                  1·
                  3 months ago

                  so… i did another reflector refresh and then did an Syyu. Now this is happening…

                  this is with the mirrorlist shown in the picture below. not sure why i’d be getting almost 3 gigs of updates right now. i’ve been updating this and using this machine daily for months on this installation. when that is complete i’ll try for python-polib again.

                  about 15 ruby packages got replaced with extra/ruby just now too.

                  • AxumEnglish
                    2·
                    3 months ago

                    well… thats a good sign at least. hopefully it finally latched on to some working mirrors then. I’d surely think it should find that library now lol