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Any way to force pacman to prefer IPV6? (self.archlinux)

submitted 1 month ago by shadowintheday2 to c/[email protected]

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I'm using IPV6-able mirrors

is it possible to force pacman to use IPV6 only, other than disabling IPV4 in the whole system?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You could use a custom XferCommand command per PACMAN.CONF(5) with wget using -6

Something like this might work:

XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget -6 -c -O %o %u

[–] shadowintheday2 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

tyvm

seems to be working, even with some 404s returned

/var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db.part 100%[===================================================================================================================>] 137.53K --.-KB/s in 0.007s

2024-08-14 11:06:10 (19.4 MB/s) - ‘/var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db.part’ saved [140827/140827]

--2024-08-14 11:06:10-- https://mirror.osbeck.com/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64/multilib.db.sig Loaded CA certificate '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt' Resolving mirror.osbeck.com (mirror.osbeck.com)... 2606:4700:20::6819:5e05, 2606:4700:20::ac43:6136, 2606:4700:20::6819:5f05 Connecting to mirror.osbeck.com (mirror.osbeck.com)|2606:4700:20::6819:5e05|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 not found 2024-08-14 11:06:10 ERROR 404: not found.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Does that only happen when it tries to download files ending in .db.sig? If so, I think I read somewhere that db have no sig. So as long as it otherwise works, this error is cosmetic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why would you want to do that? pacman attempts to connect via IPv6 first anyway.

[–] shadowintheday2 4 points 1 month ago

autistic fixation with IPV6

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

This should be the default systemwide.

Is your IPv6 behind NAT (like on a VPN)? See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mullvad#Preferring_IPv6_inside_the_tunnel