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[SOLVED] Community package ~1.5 months behind arch website...?

03 July 2020, 06:05:46

99% chance this is a rudimentary question and I just missed a detail somewhere.

"minetest" in the community repo is at 5.2.0-1, but when I go to load "minetest", only 5.1.1 is offered. (see attachment)
I loaded the latest Artix on a flashdrive and it also provided 5.1.1-2 instead of 5.2.0-1
I have community enabled in pacman.conf and I run pacman -Syu nearly daily.


So what am I missing about what the package website reports and what I'm seeing from pacman?

Many thanks for the insights.

Re: Community package ~1.5 months behind arch website...?

Reply #1 – 03 July 2020, 06:32:48

Sounds like your mirrors are outdated. Double check them. There's a high chance you have a /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew file or something like that lying around that you should probably replace your current mirrorlist file with.

Re: Community package ~1.5 months behind arch website...?

Reply #2 – 03 July 2020, 06:58:30

As Dudemanguy mentioned, check your mirrolist against pacnew file.
The right location for Arch mirrorlist is:ä

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//etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch

Re: Community package ~1.5 months behind arch website...?

Reply #3 – 03 July 2020, 18:29:45

Dudemanguy and SGOrava
That was exactly the issue, thank you.

I looked through https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave afterward just to see what other details I may have missed.
Guessing pacman alerted me to the new files and I didn't read it, or misinterpreted what it was trying to tell me (I would have presumed it updated to the new version but kept the old one - but I can see how that would not be preferred by a system admin).


On the plus side, there is something kind of nice about having nearly 2 gigs of updates to apply at once