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there is nothing to do

For roughly a couple weeks, way too long for there not to be any updates, pacman -Syu has given me the "there is nothing to do" message. I don't remember what it said the last time it updated successfully.

I have tried updating my mirrorlist. The page that people online give for Artix's mirrorlist leads to a 404. I used the mirror list for my country in the mirrorlist.pacnew and sorted it, replacing my old mirrorlist (backed up the old one of course). Then I backed up the pacnew one and removed it from my pacman.d. I have tried doing pacman -Syyu, I have tried restarting and doing the normal -Syu, but still it says "there is nothing to do".

I have the universe repo enabled. It says system, world, galaxy, extra, community, and universe is all up to date. Just trying to give as much info as I can.

Re: there is nothing to do

Reply #1 –
I'd also try to remove (or better rename to *~ for backup): /var/lib/pacman, /var/cache/pacman. THIS ADVICE IS PROVIDED WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, bla-bla-bla.

Re: there is nothing to do

Reply #2 –
@dimgel Maybe you meant /var/lib/pacman/sync :), which gets cleaned with pacman -Scc

If /var/lib/pacman/local gets deleted the system will break badly, next time please double check before you advice someone.

@onionshavelayrs The developers are working on spring cleaning and on following suite with Arch's big repository change, some patience is needed before new versions start popping up.

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Reply #3 –
Quote from: Hitman – on
If /var/lib/pacman/local gets deleted the system will break badly, next time please double check before you advice someone.

Ups, sorry: I forgot that `local` is installed packages database. Still, I double-precautioned: advised rename instead of delete, and added warranty disclaimer statement. :)

Re: there is nothing to do

Reply #5 –
Ah so there are no new updates right now. I wonder when this will be done. I get the main Artix news feed from the website through my RSS reader. Is there another feed I should follow to get updates on things like this so I don't have to make threads asking dumb questions? I hope someone puts something out about when we can expect new package updates, in case I broke something trying to get the updates today.

Oh and thanks @dimgel and @Hitman for the quick replies.

Re: there is nothing to do

Reply #6 –
Quote from: onionshavelayrs – on
Ah so there are no new updates right now.

Well, there are. You said you haven't got updates for 2 weeks, so my first impulse was (besides suggesting to install Gentoo where a day without updates is a blessing  :D  ) to share my recent updates:

# grep upgraded /var/log/pacman.log
...
[2023-05-19T10:38:21+0300] [ALPM] upgraded librewolf (112.0.2-1 -> 113.0-3)
[2023-05-19T10:38:22+0300] [ALPM] upgraded ungoogled-chromium (113.0.5672.63-2 -> 113.0.5672.92-1)
[2023-05-19T14:26:46+0300] [ALPM] upgraded cmake (3.26.3-1 -> 3.26.4-1)
[2023-05-20T11:49:28+0300] [ALPM] upgraded double-conversion (3.2.1-1 -> 3.3.0-1)
[2023-05-20T11:49:28+0300] [ALPM] upgraded libcups (1:2.4.2-6 -> 1:2.4.2-7)
[2023-05-20T11:49:28+0300] [ALPM] upgraded lua (5.4.4-4 -> 5.4.6-1)

Re: there is nothing to do

Reply #7 –
Have you tried commenting out the top repo(s) in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist in case there has been some sync failure? This sometimes happens, fastest / closest doesn't always equate with best maintained.
 

Re: there is nothing to do

Reply #8 –
Quote from: ####### – on
Have you tried commenting out the top repo(s) in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist in case there has been some sync failure? This sometimes happens, fastest / closest doesn't always equate with best maintained.

I just tried this, got the same result. Thanks for the suggestion. I looked at my pacman.log like @dimgel mentioned, and the last time I updated packages successfully was the 19th, not 2 weeks ago like I said before. Stupid estimation of the time it's been on my part. I'm sure there will be something soon.

Edit on 25 May 2023:
I am now receiving updates and so the issue is resolved. Thanks everyone for the help.