Can´t sync (-y) from my mirrors despite pacman-mirrors saying it's OK

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I’m Trying to update my system with pacman -Syu but I’m not able to, because some repos are not found (404) , despite repo.manjaro.org saying that they’re OK on the stable branch

$ sudo pacman-mirrors 
Pacman-mirrors version 4.28
Local mirror status for stable branch
Mirror #1   OK  00:16   Brazil  https://manjaro.c3sl.ufpr.br/
Mirror #2   OK  03:26   Brazil  https://mirror.ufam.edu.br/manjaro/


$ pacman-mirrors --get-branch                                                                                                                                           
stable
$ sudo pacman -Syu                                                                                                                                                      
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community.db failed to download
 multilib is up to date
 andontie-aur is up to date
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from manjaro.c3sl.ufpr.br : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from mirror.ufam.edu.br : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed to synchronize all databases (unexpected error)

Yes I could just change the mirrors, and if there’s no way to do with these I’ll do that, but I want to understand, why aren’t they working?

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The community database was deprecated about 2 years ago, and was removed altogether some time ago.

You need to remove it from /etc/pacman.conf

When it was deprecated you would’ve gained a pacman.conf.pacnew with the new config, clearly you missed it.

I imagine you probably have lots of other .pacnew files hanging around. You should merge the changes.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave#pacdiff

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[Stable Update] 2025-03-05 - Known Issues and Solutions

[community] repo removed from servers

Similar to Arch we removed our [community] repos from our mirrors and servers. You may want to check your pacnew files or manually remove [community] and [kde-unstable] when used in your /etc/pacman.conf file.

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Thanks for the help!

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