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Any way to force pacman to prefer IPV6? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] 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] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

autistic fixation with IPV6

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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