I’m using IPV6-able mirrors
is it possible to force pacman to use IPV6 only, other than disabling IPV4 in the whole system?
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
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.
Why would you want to do that? pacman attempts to connect via IPv6 first anyway.
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
