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.

  • egsaqmojzOPEnglish
    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

    • Axum@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      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?

      • egsaqmojzOPEnglish
        1·
        2 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.

          • egsaqmojzOPEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            pacman -Qi python | grep Architecture yields Architecture : x86_64

            • Axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              2·
              2 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.

              • egsaqmojzOPEnglish
                1·
                2 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@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                  2·
                  2 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.

              • egsaqmojzOPEnglish
                1·
                2 months ago

                that asciicinema thing is super cool too

              • egsaqmojzOPEnglish
                1·
                2 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.

                • Axum@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                  2·
                  2 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