"Dependencies older than the installed ones"

[laidlaws]

I have just installed Mageia 9. I seem to have wound up with half a distro, with packages missing from both the 32-bit and 64-bit repos. In the case of Freetype6, the 64-bit RPM is marked as essential, and the 32-bit package givdes me a long list of dependencies, then tells me "Sorry, this package cannot be installed," with no explanation. Other 32-bit packages give the message in the heading: "Dependencies older than the installed ones." I have seen this before. Usually it means that the package is in a 32-bit repo that I overlooked, but not this time.

I have rpmdrake set to use the Mirror list. It defaults to aarnet, which years ago, had difficulty keeping up-to-date, as did the Chinese mirrors. aarnet said that both were fed from the same node, so they would be in identical states. Should I set a specific mirror instead?

[laidlaws]

I added a Chinese mirror as a "specific mirror," and everything installed beautifully. I did not check first whether aarnet had been updated, but I am accustomed to the problems caused by living in the "wrong" hemisphere.

[sturmvogel]

As you can see on the mirror status page, aarnet is completely out of sync. Don‘t use it…
https://mirrors.mageia.org/status

[doktor5000]

Please don't forget to mark the thread as solved, by editing the subject of the first post and prefix it with [SOLVED], thanks in advance.