thanks so much for the coaching!

okay i got it now.

was something wrong with the mirror i was using? if so, is there some way to know if i have a “lesser” mirror? or was the arch linux world just going thru a major update today and i had to wait it out?

so… i did another reflector refresh and then did an Syyu. Now this is happening…

this is with the mirrorlist shown in the picture below. not sure why i’d be getting almost 3 gigs of updates right now. i’ve been updating this and using this machine daily for months on this installation. when that is complete i’ll try for python-polib again.

about 15 ruby packages got replaced with extra/ruby just now too.

that asciicinema thing is super cool too

pacman -Qi python | grep Architecture yields Architecture : x86_64

yep, dns points me to 108.61.5.83 and i can get there by hostname and address thru the browser. i spun up a new live arch session i built with archiso. still can’t get a hit thru pacman tho. really can’t explain it.

absolutely. i’ve tried this on two x86 systems as well, my desktop and laptop. if there’s no quick fix or obvious problem, i’m not above doing a full reinstall to fix this.

i’ll spin up a vm to test too

output:

Server = https://arch.mirror.constant.com/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://mirrors.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://us.mirrors.cicku.me/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://america.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://mirrors.vectair.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://mirrors.lug.mtu.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://arch.hu.fo/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://archmirror1.octyl.net/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://mirror.theash.xyz/arch/$repo/os/$arch

Server = https://us.arch.niranjan.co/$repo/os/$arch

no luck. still getting: error: target not found: python-polib

giving this a try: sudo reflector --latest 10 --protocol https --country 'United States' --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

i was too young to get disappointed by the lionhead hype. have very fond memories of b&w and fable

To button this up, I didn’t figure out the one-line solution. I used a script that opnsense publishes to install opnsense on top of freebsd. This is the same script used in the opnsense installer img. Wasn’t hard, but I was laser-focused on figuring out the one-line solution. :(

When I use just the wget aspect of the command, it dumps a bunch of jargon to my terminal, so I think that means I have the “stdout” aspect of that command right.