#116 Connection timeout trying to update MSYS2

[Angelo Graziosi]

For the sake of completeness...

These days, running pacman prints connection timeout errors. For example, a few minutes ago:

$ pacman -Syu
:: Sincronizzazione dei database in corso...
errore: impossibile scaricare il pacchetto 'mingw32.db' da 148.251.42.38 : Connection    timed out after 10013 milliseconds
 mingw32 è aggiornato
errore: impossibile scaricare il pacchetto 'mingw64.db' da 148.251.42.38 : Connection timed out after 10010 milliseconds
 mingw64 è aggiornato
errore: impossibile scaricare il pacchetto 'msys.db' da 148.251.42.38 : Connection timed out after 10010 milliseconds
 msys è aggiornato
:: Aggiornamento del sistema in corso...
 non ci sono aggiornamenti disponibili

I wonder if this is to be expected...

Ciao,
Angelo.

[Alexx83]

This ftp server will not be available anymore. Used sourceforge mirror.

[Angelo Graziosi]

Hmm.. I haven't changed nothing in my installation if not running 'pacman -Syu', so I don't understand what I have to do.. Please, explain..

TIA,
Angelo.

[Matthieu Vachon]

On initial installation, pacman repository files contain urls pointing to various location on the internet. One of them points to a now unavailable ftp server (at ip 148.251.42.38).

I wrote detailled instructions on github issue #144 about how to remove the offending repository url from pacman configuration files.

[Angelo Graziosi]

OK, good to hear.. but if that primary server is not valid any more, shouldn't be a pacman upgrade which fixes that? substituting it with a new valid primary server? i.e. upgrading those mirrorlist.* files..

BTW, usually I use this script

$ cat update_core_MSYS2.sh
#!/bin/bash

## The routine... i.e. the main...
update()
{
    local PACMAN=`which pacman 2> /dev/null`

    if [ "-${PACMAN}-" != "--" ]; then

        ## First: synchronize the database..
        ${PACMAN} -Sy

        ## ..then, update...

        PACMAN+=" -S --needed"

        local core_pkgs=" filesystem msys2-runtime msys2-runtime-devel bash"
        core_pkgs+=" libreadline libiconv libarchive libgpgme libcurl pacman"
        core_pkgs+=" ncurses ncurses-devel libintl"

        ${PACMAN} ${core_pkgs}
    else
        echo "PACMAN command not found..."
    fi
}

## Executing the main..
update

to upgrade core packages.. and when a new package enter in the 'core', the script is updated.

Shouldn't MSYS2 come with a similar script? Then one could say: "you have to run update_core first then 'pacman -Syu'..."

Ciao,
Angelo.

[David Macek]

The pacman-mirrors package was updated.