[arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 4.0.0-2

[Pierre Schmitz]

Am 14.10.2011 07:34, schrieb Allan McRae:
> On 14/10/11 15:10, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>> I just noticed a somehow unexpected behavior: When I run "pacman -S
>> devtools" (still had namcap version 3.1) pacman wanted to install these
>> pacakges:
>>   namcap-3.1-1  pacman-3.5.4-4  pyalpm-0.4.3-1  subversion-1.6.17-6
>> devtools-0.9.27-1
> 
> I am majorly confused as why a "pacman -S devtools" would pull
> namcap/pyalpm/pacman in if you already had namcap installed and there
> are no versioned deps for devtools.  I assume you had subversion
> installed too...

no, here is how I did it: When noticing that pacman wont upgrade due to
pylibalpm being incompatible I removed it with Rcsn which also removed
devtools. The next day I tried pacman -Syu and pacamn -.S devtools which
results in the behavior described.

Also, even after syncing my repo I still had trouble updating. Note
that I had pacman 3.5 and the old pyalpm at this time. As -Syu then
wanted to update pacman first to 4.0 but failed as it did not update
libalpm at the same time. I guess this is a different issue with
SyncFirst. It only updates pacman and its deps but no those packages
that depend on a specific pacman version and therefor fails. I am not
sure if we can solve this issue in a sane way though. At least we should
add this to the announcement that one needs to temporary remove pyalpm
before updating pacman and reinstall it afterwards.

Greetings,

Pierre

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Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre