For the last few days in running updates using the EOS updater, the only ones are from EOS related packages, nothing from the main or extra repo’s, and two AUR packages that have been failing to install for like a week, and waiting to have their packages fixed (not sweating those, I can wait).
So has something changed I missed, or could it just be most developers are busy with the holiday shopping, and all that, so a seasonal thing? It’s just really unusual, even for on holiday that there isn’t at least one update.
I am using the eos updater, it does check and update the mirrors automatically, and that all seems to be working as usual, so what could it be?
I was in the hospital for 9 days, and wasn’t more than two days without updates but that is usually not long enough for it to cause any problems, nor are there any errors, so anyone else have the same experience? I updated my laptop in the hospital, and it was like 7 months out of date, and so it did need a hammer, a crow bar, and a lot of cussing and frustration to update it to the here and now, but I got it done, and all was well.
Maybe it is just a weird coincidence, as it’s not out of the realm of possibilities, just a wee bit improbable.
Either your mirrors are outdated or you have lost the mirror entries for arch repos in your last update. Perhaps by bungling a *.pacnew (which is my guess).
So does that mean I was just lucky a server on my list was online for that long and the EOS updater doesn’t check the list automatically and update them based on my location?
So I have to do this manually every once in a while?
If so can it be made to do so? It would be a very useful and welcome feature. I can see it necessary when first installing the OS, moving far away, or when traveling with a laptop… but once a location is established I’d think automatic is the way to go, or at least a message stating “Your mirrors are out of date…”.
With “EOS updater” you mean eos-update, right?
It does not automatically rank mirrors. There are other commands to rank mirrors, like reflector, reflector-simple, rate-mirrors, and rami.
In addition, for the EndeavourOS repo we have eos-rankmirrors.
Note that mirrors are a living thing, sometimes they are offline either temporarily or permanently. Then ranking the list will help.
OK, so which one is better? I can imagine reflector to be more thorough than reflector-simple, and rate-mirrors makes sense but is it any different?
What are the differences between the 4?
I can just use the welcome app I guess, but in my case remembering to do so is the problem, as because by the time I do remember that, I forgot how to do so as you can see!
I rarely use it, only for travel, to which I prep it first, I wasn’t planing on having an ulcer explode, nor expecting it for never even having an ulcer before…
Please stand by.
