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

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              My only gut ‘guess’ is that your original mirror was out of date, then you happened to switch to one mid sync potentially.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