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[Solved] error: failed retrieving file 'galaxy.db' ...

Hello,
I can't do my updates this morning.
Is this a planned temporary interruption?

The galaxy repository may have been merged with world as was announced :
https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,5488.0.html

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sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for jp: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 system is up to date
 world is up to date
 galaxy.db failed to download
error: failed retrieving file 'galaxy.db' from mirror1.artixlinux.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'galaxy.db' from mirrors.redcorelinux.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'galaxy.db' from mirror.pascalpuffke.de : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'galaxy.db' from artix.unixpeople.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'galaxy.db' from mirror.one.com : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed to synchronize all databases (failed to retrieve some files)

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Reply #1 –
Hi,

thank you for sharing this information. I have the exact same problem.
Unable to update. Pacman asks, if I want to update, but I did not proceed.
I have tried multiple times, but I always get the same message as yours.

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Reply #2 –
Quote from: tintin – on
I can't do my updates this morning.

It's very simple:

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rankmirrors -v -n 35 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew | tee /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

"Wer alles kann, macht nichts richtig"

Artix USE="runit openrc slim openbox lxde gtk2 qt4 qt5 qt6 conky
-gtk3 -gtk4 -adwaita{cursors,themes,icons} -gnome3 -kde -plasma -wayland "
 

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Reply #4 –
Quote from: tintin – on
Hello,
Quote from: maverick – on
thank you for sharing this information. I have the exact same problem.
.../...
While waiting for confirmation, I inhibited galaxy.

If I understood that correctly you have updated your system after you have restrained the galaxy.db? If so, doesn't it
break the system by doing that?

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Reply #6 –
 
 Yeah galaxy not working for me either but it says is up to date. Now if that's true or not idk. I better let alone updates 1 or 2 days.

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Reply #7 –
Same here:

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error: failed retrieving file 'galaxy.db'

Should I worry or is the planned merge happening right now?

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Reply #8 –
o/
i also had the same error yesterday, then remembered that galaxy was planned for merging into world.
And it seems the galaxy repo has been finally deleted yesterday.
the link tintin gave was speaking about it.
So the solution is indeed to comment the lines in /etc/pacman.conf ;)

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#[galaxy]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

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Reply #9 –
Quote from: Dju – on
And it seems the galaxy repo has been finally deleted yesterday.
the link tintin gave was speaking about it.
So the solution is indeed to comment the lines in /etc/pacman.conf ;)

Thanks. If only every problem could be solved by DELETING SOMETHING!!!   :D  :D  :D

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Reply #10 –

 It was planned but shouldn't we get an official announcement? Something like: "From today galaxy repo iz ded thank you bye" .. :D

 I intend to delete it from my pacman conf but I'll wait for a bit till the announcement.

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Reply #11 –
Quote from: Surf3r – on

 It was planned but shouldn't we get an official announcement? Something like: "From today galaxy repo iz ded thank you bye" .. :D

 I intend to delete it from my pacman conf but I'll wait for a bit till the announcement.

Agreed. I am sure they will let us know soon. :)

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Reply #13 –
This was my bad. I was merging universe into galaxy since we have a new build pipeline setup for galaxy, but I goof'd the rsyncd.conf last night before going to bed and didn't realize it. So mirrors were picking up the other repos but not the galaxy ones. I fixed that this morning and it should eventually propagate to all mirrors once they sync again (e.g. you can see the galaxy repos on this one).

Galaxy isn't going away. What will eventually go away is Universe since all packages there were moved to galaxy. This should be nicer for users and it's definitely a lot nicer for packagers.

Edit: Or maybe Omniverse will become the new Universe. We'll see. This has yet to be decided.