I have updated the system to refresh databases, as usual, $ sudo pacman -Syyu
I also applied the commands to refresh mirrors: $ sudo pacman-mirrors -f5
Let me give it a try tomorrow. Maybe it’s a CloudFlare (or similar) thing…
Or maybe there is something else, because pamac/pacman tries to retrieve .part files.
Is there some manual way to retrieve the maboxlinux.db?
Thanks for the SyncFirst tip! I read about it, though even with pacman v.6.1.0-7, it’s not gone. I thought it should stay uncommented because maboxlinux was mentioned there.
That was a promising response, but yet no luck. However, maybe I have a misconception, and signatures are not truly required to update the system, as this post suggests:
…it states that «the db sigs are optional. When not present, some mirrors return a HTML message saying not found, which pamac tries to use as a signature, resulting in error.»
Just to be sure, is this latter information correct for Mabox, as well?
Packages in Mabox repo do not use signatures. So there are no *.sig files on the server.
Looks like you altered your /etc/pacman.conf…
Mabox repo part should look like:
[maboxlinux]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = http://repo.maboxlinux.org/stable/$arch/
You can access packages by both http and https protocols.
What is strange for me is line:
URL transformed to HTTPS due to an HSTS policy
in your output.
Check your /etc/pacman.conf
Here it is as provided by Mabox currently:
#
# /etc/pacman.conf
#
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives
#
# GENERAL OPTIONS
#
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir = /
#DBPath = /var/lib/pacman/
CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
#GPGDir = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
#HookDir = /etc/pacman.d/hooks/
HoldPkg = pacman glibc manjaro-system
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -C - -f %u > %o
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
#UseDelta = 0.7
Architecture = auto
#IgnorePkg =
#IgnorePkg =
#IgnoreGroup =
#NoUpgrade =
#NoExtract =
# Misc options
#UseSyslog
Color
TotalDownload
# We cannot check disk space from within a chroot environment
CheckSpace
VerbosePkgLists
ParallelDownloads = 4
ILoveCandy
# By default, pacman accepts packages signed by keys that its local keyring
# trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.
SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
#RemoteFileSigLevel = Required
# NOTE: You must run `pacman-key --init` before first using pacman; the local
# keyring can then be populated with the keys of all official Manjaro Linux
# packagers with `pacman-key --populate archlinux manjaro`.
#
# REPOSITORIES
# - can be defined here or included from another file
# - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
# - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
# - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
# have identical names, regardless of version number
# - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
# - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
#
# Repository entries are of the format:
# [repo-name]
# Server = ServerName
# Include = IncludePath
#
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
#
# The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the
# repo name header and Include lines. You can add preferred servers immediately
# after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors.
[maboxlinux]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = http://repo.maboxlinux.org/stable/$arch/
[core]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[extra]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
# enable the multilib repositories as required here.
[multilib]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs
Does this output of ping command tell you about connection time-out?
ping repo.maboxlinux.org
PING repo.maboxlinux.org (5.196.196.149) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ip149.ip-5-196-196.eu (5.196.196.149): icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=181 ms
64 bytes from ip149.ip-5-196-196.eu (5.196.196.149): icmp_seq=2 ttl=47 time=181 ms
64 bytes from ip149.ip-5-196-196.eu (5.196.196.149): icmp_seq=3 ttl=47 time=181 ms
64 bytes from ip149.ip-5-196-196.eu (5.196.196.149): icmp_seq=4 ttl=47 time=179 ms
64 bytes from ip149.ip-5-196-196.eu (5.196.196.149): icmp_seq=5 ttl=47 time=179 ms
64 bytes from ip149.ip-5-196-196.eu (5.196.196.149): icmp_seq=6 ttl=47 time=181 ms
^C
--- repo.maboxlinux.org ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 6 received, 14.2857% packet loss, time 6003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 178.651/180.367/181.345/0.993 ms
Can I change the time to query the repo’s database file? Something like I do with pacman-mirrors? To give time the repo to answer to my query… (it’s just an idea).
Just for the sake of completeness, the Telegram’s Manjaro en Español team helped me. Since I can download the maboxlinux.db using wget, I uncommented again the line in /etc/pacman.conf:
