Get current server of pacman
How do I get the URL of the remote repository that pacman uses to download packages?
I know that I can tell pacman which server to use by editing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. But in my case, all of the lines are commented out and given that a command like pacman -Syu still works, I'm wondering which server pacman contacts to update the system.
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| Matthias Braun | (no comment) | Jun 3, 2023 at 13:08 |
with pacman --debug
We can display the mirrors that pacman uses with the --debug option.
For example, when running pacman --debug -Sy, pacman will write lines like these to standard error:
debug: core.db: url is http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.db
We can use grep to filter the lines containing URLs:
pacman --debug -Sy |& grep "url is"
Which prints this, in my case:
debug: core.db: url is http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.db
debug: core.db.sig: url is http://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.db.sig
debug: extra.db: url is http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db
debug: extra.db.sig: url is http://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.sig
debug: community.db: url is http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/community/os/x86_64/community.db
debug: community.db.sig: url is http://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/archlinux/community/os/x86_64/community.db.sig
The ampersand after the pipe in the command above will also redirect the standard error stream to grep, not only standard out.
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