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 -- If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.
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