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Tasklist

FS#8730 - rankmirrors does not account for incompatibility of different mirrors

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Antons Šušpans (antox) - Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 16:22 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 17:05 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Scripts & Tools
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.0.6
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
rankmirrors processes single mirrorfile at once. Thus it is possible (and in fact was observed) that order of mirrors differs for e. g. core and extra repos. In an unlucky case, when the primary extra mirror is up to date, but primary core mirror is not, it is likely to be unable to install packages from extra, since dependencies on core packages can not be satisfied.

Since pacman downloads packages from different repos just in turn, not simultaneously, it seems sane to use the same mirror for all repos. Although having all the mirrors at the same state (up to date) would be much more desirable.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 17:05 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  This will be fixed in 3.1 release with the switch to a single mirrorfile.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 17:01 GMT
I'm pretty sure this is covered by the switch to use a single mirror list in pacman-git.

Dan, can you confirm?

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