Archlinux News: Git migration completed

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Git migration completed

2023-05-21 - Levente Polyak

We are proud to announce that the migration to Git packaging succeeded!

Thanks to everyone who has helped during the migration!

Package sources are now available on GitLab. Note that the bugtracker is still flyspray and that merge requests are not accepted as of now. We intend to open the issue tracker and merge requests on the Gitlab package repos in the near future.

Mirrors are syncing again, but it may take a bit of time until your mirror of choice has caught up.

For users

Update your system and merge the pacman pacnew /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew file. This is required as we have moved the [community] repository into [extra].

$ pacman -Syu "pacman>=6.0.2-7"`

For users of the now deprecated asp tool, you will need to switch to pkgctl:

$ pacman -Syu "devtools>=1:1.0.0-1"
$ pkgctl repo clone linux

For some more detailed instructions on how to obtain PKGBUILDs see the corresponding wiki article.

 

 

https://archlinux.org/news/git-migration-completed/

[securitybreach]

You may of not gotten the new pacman version but when you do, merge /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew with /etc/pacman.conf.

[securitybreach]

OK, you should of gotten the new pacman update. What you need to do is either diff the two files or simply make sure the following options are enabled:

 

# Misc options
#UseSyslog
Color
#NoProgressBar
CheckSpace
VerbosePkgLists
ParallelDownloads = 15
ILoveCandy

 

# in front means disabled

 

You should also re-enable multilib by removing # in front of the lines:

 

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

 

[abarbarian]

Downloaded 100's of updates and did the pacman thing. Hope my luverly slightly crippled pc boots back up

[raymac46]

On 5/21/2023 at 10:49 PM, securitybreach said:

OK, you should of gotten the new pacman update. What you need to do is either diff the two files or simply make sure the following options are enabled:

 

# Misc options
#UseSyslog
Color
#NoProgressBar
CheckSpace
VerbosePkgLists
ParallelDownloads = 15
ILoveCandy

 

# in front means disabled

 

You should also re-enable multilib by removing # in front of the lines:

 

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

 

@Josh I don't understand what "diff the two files" means. I made the changes in /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew as pacman.conf looked OK. Is that what I should do?

Edited May 23, 2023 by raymac46

[raymac46]

It's OK I figured it out from the ArchWiki. It's important to make the changes in pacman.conf

Edited May 23, 2023 by raymac46

[raymac46]

I'm glad I have the cruddy old Toshiba that still runs Arch as I can experiment with that with no fear of borking something actually useful.

Edited May 23, 2023 by raymac46

[securitybreach]

7 hours ago, raymac46 said:

@Josh I don't understand what "diff the two files" means. I made the changes in /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew as pacman.conf looked OK. Is that what I should do?

 

The syntax is

 

diff /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew /etc/pacman.conf

 

Then it will prompt you to make the changes for each line or not. Diff is an old unix command that is still around but there are variants of it.

[raymac46]

Thanks. I found it easier to just compare visually the latest pacman.conf file and use nano to edit my current file. Removed references to [community] and [community-testing] because those repos are going away. Made sure pacman is working OK.

[abarbarian]

Reboot was a sucess. Whoopeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[securitybreach]

9 hours ago, abarbarian said:

Reboot was a sucess. Whoopeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

 

Excellent

[securitybreach]

On 5/23/2023 at 3:42 PM, raymac46 said:

Thanks. I found it easier to just compare visually the latest pacman.conf file and use nano to edit my current file. Removed references to [community] and [community-testing] because those repos are going away. Made sure pacman is working OK.

 

That works too