FS#73993 - reflector package missing rsync as dependency

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jay Aurabind (aurabindo) - Tuesday, 01 March 2022, 01:39 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Tuesday, 01 March 2022, 07:14 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Not having rsync installed will result in errors like:

[2022-02-28 20:34:15] WARNING: failed to rate http(s) download (https://archlinux.thaller.ws/community/os/x86_64/community.db): Download timed out after 5 second(s).
[2022-02-28 20:34:15] WARNING: failed to rate rsync download (rsync://archlinux.thaller.ws/archlinux/community/os/x86_64/community.db): [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'rsync'
[2022-02-28 20:34:15] WARNING: failed to rate rsync download (rsync://arch.mirror.square-r00t.net/arch/community/os/x86_64/community.db): [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'rsync'


Steps to reproduce:

1. Do a fresh installation of Archlinux, and run reflector, and observe the error:

reflector --latest 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Tuesday, 01 March 2022, 07:14 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Tuesday, 01 March 2022, 02:11 GMT
No it isn't.

rsync (optional) - rate rsync mirrors

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