Updating CachyOS Issues

Issues & Assistance
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Hi…

All of a sudden sudo pacman -Syu is not working. It just sits there and the activity is dead like it’s having issues connecting to the update server. Anyone else having issues? Thanks

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Try: sudo cachyos-rate-mirrors
and then: sudo pacman -Syu

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Thanks that worked perfectly. Appreciate you. Cheers!

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I’ve also had some problems with this lately. The first time I did just as described here - a mirror update - and that fixed it.

The second time I had problems with dependency isssues/breakage when just running yay, the “mirror update” didn’t fix it. But after some google kungfu I learned that if you “double” any(?) option with pacman it forces that option, so what fixed it was pacman -Syyu. If I understood things correctly, that forced an update of the repo-thingies (?).

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This can often happen, when the arch mirror’s are out of date, which you had in your mirrorlist.

Basically, you can all time rank the mirrors, before updating. We are working currently on a “update-cachyos” tool, which automatically checks, if the used arch mirror is out of date, and if its out of date, it will rank the mirrors and then proceed with updating the system.

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Then I’d like to highly suggest that you also look at the features of arch-update. It of course 100% works in cachyos, but since you are making an updater, it would be great if we had these features in cachyos.

Here is a copy of a post I made in another thread about it:

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Yes, I know about this tool.

Actually, I’d love to have an Plymouth Integration together with “automatically update on shutdown”.
But lets see.

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As long as it doesn’t forcefully update the system I would be fine with its addition. I dislike the concept of auto updates on arch linux. Never no if something might get messed up. I usually do updates every 3 to 7 days based on the types of packages getting updated and if I am having a problem or not.