[SOLVED] Poor mirror would cause -current downgrade

igadoter · 12-15-2020, 01:46 AM

I witnessed this yesterday. I pick mirror closest to my location from slackpkg mirror list. After update when I tried to upgrade system slackpkg list packages to upgrade showed kernel version older than already installed. After switching to another mirror things went back to normal. The outdated mirror was not synced at least for three, four days.

Alien Bob · 12-15-2020, 02:14 AM

Is your mirror in this list: https://mirrors.slackware.com/mirrorlist/ ? If yes, your responses, feedback, and questions should go to mirrors@slackware.com
If no, then it is not an officially known mirror and you'll have to contact the site's maintainer yourself.

igadoter · 12-16-2020, 08:50 AM

Mirror is on slackpkg mirrors list. But is not on list link points to. Inconsistency? Wouldn't be better slackpkg mirrors list be the same as list the link points to?

bassmadrigal · 12-16-2020, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by igadoter

Mirror is on slackpkg mirrors list. But is not on list link points to. Inconsistency? Wouldn't be better slackpkg mirrors list be the same as list the link points to?

The list at mirrors.slackware.com/mirrorlist/ can be changed at any time. The slackpkg list is only updated when an updated slackpkg is put out. I imagine the mirror list for slackpkg will be updated before 15.0 is released.

In case you're interested, you can always use the "mirrorbrain" mirror, which is simply:

Code:

https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-$VERSION/

This will try and get you a mirror that's closest to you that exists on the mirror list.