On 2016-03-23 08:19-0000 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, Greg,
> It looks like the whole list I get is out-of-date - several other packages in > my list that I checked have a lower version number too. The repositories that > seem to be checked (assuming the files "mirrorlist.* are indeed used for > them) contain an updated list, so something is wrong or out-of-date on my > system, but I have no clue what. Reinstall MinGW-w64/MSYS2? Hi Arjen: I have no practical experience with pacman so therefore if Greg contradicts the following advice you should pay attention to what he says. However, if you read the pacman "man" page at <https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.8.html> (something you should do in any case) it appears that you need to use the -y (--refresh) option as well as the -u (--sysupgrade) option. >From my reading of that man page, the purpose of those two options seems to be very close to the Debian apt-get sub-commands "update" and "dist-upgrade". The first of those updates the local database of package characteristics _without installing anything_, while the second does actual installs the latest versions of packages based on the information in that local database. So I infer that is what will happen for the pacman case as well. If you agree after reading that man page carefully, I would go ahead and try those options and not do a complete reinstall of MinGW-w64/MSYS2 except as a last resort. Of course, if -y works, I hope you are willing to send me the resulting updated package list. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785351&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
