On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 04:50:32PM +0000, grizzlyuser wrote: > On Wednesday, June 12, 2019 12:06 PM, Andreas Grapentin > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Come to think of it, there already is another way that works with an > > unmodified pacman. pacman does not mandate that all repos use a single > > mirror list. You could configure a system that has a list of arch > > mirrors in mirrorlist.arch and a set of parabola mirrors in > > mirrorlist.parabola, and then choose the appropriate mirror list in the > > `Include' directive in pacman.conf for the respective repository. > > This is a good idea. To test it, I tried to configure a fresh install of > Parabola this way. Then ran pacman -Syy to download fresh copies of master > package databases. And finally tried to install some blacklisted package. > Pacman attempted to install it, but said it conflicts with your-freedom. This > behavior is different when package databases have been downloaded from > Parabola mirrors: pacman complains the target is not found.
This is a good point -- why does this not happen when syncing through the redirector? Does that always sync the .db.tar.* files from a parabola mirror on -Sy? -oak -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ my GPG Public Key: https://files.grapentin.org/.gpg/public.key ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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