Aur.manjaro.org has not updated for several days

[karolyi]

Something’s off with pamac (and the derivatives of it).

Upon upgrade, I get a ‘Failed to synchronize AUR database’ message, and new packages from AUR aren’t shown. This happens on issuing pamac upgrade --aur --force-refresh.

It doesn’t show packages that need to be updated, instead it shows them with their old version and thinks everything is alright. librewolf-bin for example shows up with their v132 version whereas v133 is already available. Upon issunig a rebuild from the pamac GTK UI, it installs v133.

Just thought I’d let you know.

[scotty65]

It looks like Manjaro’s mirror of the AUR database hasn’t updated since last week:

curl -sI https://aur.manjaro.org/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz | grep -i Last-Modified
last-modified: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 21:00:05 GMT

@karolyi

Upon issunig a rebuild from the pamac GTK UI, it installs v133.

That’s because the PKGBUILD has been updated to v133. So, even though Manjaro’s AUR database still shows v132, rebuilding librewolf-bin will install the newer version that’s in the librewolf-bin PKGBUILD:

pkgname=librewolf-bin
provides=(${pkgname//-bin/""})
conflicts=(${pkgname//-bin/""})
pkgver=133.0
pkgrel=1

[Ben]

Hi there karolyi - I noticed this earlier this week and mentioned it in an update thread - where I suggested that (for now) it suits me better to use yay.

Failed to read AUR data from /var/lib/pacman/sync/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz : Error opening file /var/lib/pacman/sync/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz: No such file or directory

@scotty65 Has been here before

Packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz cannot be downloaded

If I remember the discussion from a year or two ago correctly, Arch blocked Manjaro users from accessing http://aur.archlinux.org/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz via Pamac due to the fact that Pamac tries to download the file every time it synchronises databases, which happens whenever a user installs a package or updates their system. It was really hammering the Arch servers.

[scotty65]

Pamac search is working fine on my system (although the database is a few days out-of-date):

pamac search librewolf-bin
librewolf-bin  132.0.2-1                               AUR
    Community-maintained fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.

[scotty65]

@Ben

@scotty65 Has been here before

Not really relevant as Manjaro mirrors the AUR database on their own servers (which haven’t mirrored the AUR since last week). The file is there and is downloading - it just isn’t up-to-date:

pamac upgrade --aur --force-refresh 
Preparing...
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.manjaro.pamac.commit ====
Authentication is required to install, update, or remove packages
Authenticating as: Scott (scotty)
Password: 
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ====
Synchronizing package databases...
Refreshing core.db...
Refreshing extra.db...
Refreshing core.files...
Refreshing extra.files...
Refreshing AUR...
Nothing to do. 
Transaction successfully finished.

[Ben]

Interesting - I just:
removed directory '/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-lYHlyC, refreshed -
Now I also see librewolf-bin 132.0.2-1

[philm]

Seems I rebooted the repo server at some point when a sync of the AUR db was happening. I removed the blocker file and reran the script. Should be fine now.

[scotty65]

@philm

Should be fine now.

Thanks Phil. Looking good now:

curl -sI https://aur.manjaro.org/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz | grep -i Last-Modified 
last-modified: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 09:24:12 GMT

pamac search librewolf-bin
librewolf-bin  133.0-1                                              AUR
    Community-maintained fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.