This morning all my Manjaro machines have an error with regards to the Community repo as follows; error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from manjaro.kurdy.org : The requested URL returned error: 404 error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from mirror.easyname.at : The requested URL retu…

A long time ago all packages was moved from community to extra repo. You should edit your /etc/pacman.conf and remove the community repo reference. [image] Update - error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' Notices Long time ago the community packages was …

I wasnt aware that the Community repo was no longer pertinent. Removed it from my configuration.

As Manjaro sync the primary part from Arch this announcement affect Manjaro Arch Linux - News: Cleaning up old repositories

So… This might sound like a naive question, but… I wonder why there was no transitional package that fixed this configuration issue? I mean, all the facts were known by the maintainers well beforehands, so it would have been easy to publish a package that just removes the community repo references …

https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/System_Maintenance#Pacnew_and_Pacsave_files

[image] tdussa: I wonder why there was no transitional package There was an update announcement for this when it was done, way back in July of 2023 already: [image] [Stable Update] 2023-07-10 - Kernels, Plasma, Gnome, LibreOffice, Pipewire, Mozilla, Wine This also completes our migration …

Mirdarthos, you are, of course, correct in your observation that I could have caught this way ago. However, allow me to point out that that does not address my question, which was why this is not handled automatically, especially since this is a breaking change. If there is a good reason not to fi…

[image] tdussa: However, allow me to point out that that does not address my question, which was why this is not handled automatically, especially since this is a breaking change. It was not a breaking change at the time (more than a year ago - or even two). Back then it was addressed by a .…

The community repo was deprecated two years ago. I removed it from my pacman.conf immediately upon seeing the announcement in 2023 stating that it should be removed. Running a rolling release Linux distro like Manjaro or Arch requires paying attention to announcements like these for instructions on …

Well i had the same issue but i cannot find a pacman.conf.pacnew on my system … hmm perhaps i can diff mine with one online in the repos? And i think i had a script installed that showed a message if a pacnew file was added :confused: … i do not remember getting one in the last months.

Community Repository Error

Support System Updates

nikgnomic 3 March 2025 10:13 9

And many topics since 2023 when data showed /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew changes had not been merged by user

Problems with some Server?