On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:20:21PM -0000, Rosenstrauch, David wrote:
> 
> 
> > > You can probably fix this by doing a reinstall (or 
> > reinstall/force) on
> > > pacman.
> > >
> > > DR
> 
> > I don't understand how pacman is going to invent the URL's.
> 
> It's not going to invent them.  It's going to re-extract them from the
> pkg.tar.gz file that you have cached on your hard drive.
> 
> Try issuing this command:
> 
> tar -tvzf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-2.9.5-1.pkg.tar.gz
> 
> Note that the following files are included in the output:
> 
> -rw-r--r-- root/root       973 2005-01-11 18:01:28 etc/pacman.d/current
> -rw-r--r-- root/root      1180 2005-01-11 18:01:28 etc/pacman.d/release
> -rw-r--r-- root/root       930 2005-01-11 18:01:28 etc/pacman.d/extra
> -rw-r--r-- root/root      1049 2005-01-11 18:01:28 etc/pacman.d/unstable
> 
> So doing a re-install will copy these files from out of this archive and
> re-install them onto your system.
> 
> DR

Of course that means you pacman -U the package and not -S the name.  If you
try to -S it, pacman will look for stuff in /etc/pacman.conf and
/etc/pacman.d.

Jason

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