[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Pacman 4.0.0 RC1 "release"

[Myra Nelson]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 17:40, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> On 22/08/11 03:10, Myra Nelson wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 02:52, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 21/08/11 17:40, Myra Nelson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:28, Dan McGee<dpmcgee at gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> For the daring, pick your poison (by architecture):
>>>>>
>>>>> * pacman -U
>>>>> http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
>>>>> * pacman -U
>>>>> http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
>>>>>
>>>>> Allan, Dave, and I (and probably a few others) run pacman-git on most
>>>>> of our systems with no problems, so their should be no real shockers
>>>>> or problems if you give this a spin. There are no database upgrades or
>>>>> changes this time so downgrading later should work fine if truly
>>>>> necessary.
>>>>>
>>>>> What we're looking for feedback on:
>>>>>
>>>>> * any build failures in makepkg you may see
>>>>> * if you manage a custom repo, how does repo-add work for you
>>>>> * does pacman behave as it did before
>>>>> * if you want to sign packages, does the functionality in makepkg and
>>>>> the documentation make sense
>>>>> * same for signing repos- does it work for you
>>>>>
>>>>> What we know isn't there yet:
>>>>> * translations
>>>>> * a developer keyring (or keyring package)- if you delve into this,
>>>>> you will need to look at pacman-key for now
>>>>> * great error messages on verification failure, or ability to import
>>>>> keys on the fly if it is unknown
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that we'd love testing even if you don't plan on touching any of
>>>>> the new signing stuff- there were 500+ commits worth of changes in
>>>>> this release, including a switch to curl as the download library, so
>>>>> anything out of the ordinary should be reported. Please choose -git as
>>>>> the version in the bugtracker if you do it that way, otherwise email
>>>>> pacman-dev.
>>>>>
>>>>> Happy testing!
>>>>>
>>>>> -Dan
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This may not be in the right place but I just experienced an error
>>>> while upgrading. This is the first hiccup I've noticed since
>>>> installing the pacman-4.0.0.rc1. I put a copy of the pacman log for
>>>> the last two days and the error messages I'm receiving here:
>>>> http://pastebin.com/WsCJPpqk .
>>>>
>>>> This is a sample of the error, :: File
>>>> /var/cache/pacman/pkg/avahi-0.6.30-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted
>>>> (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). It was the same for
>>>> device-mapper, eject, fakeroot, and lvm2.
>>>>
>>>> I tried changing mirrors from rit.edu to mirrors1.kernel.org and
>>>> resyncing with pacman -Syy. I still received the same errors. Other
>>>> packages upgraded just fine, inetutils; net-tools; atool. Since I'm
>>>> not familiar enough with the pacman code I'm not sure where to go
>>>> next. If I need to file a bug report I will be glad to.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Use --debug to get more detailed error messages.
>>>
>>> Basically, signatures are now being included in our repo databases.  You do
>>> not have them in your pacman keyring so pacman can not validate the package.
>>>  Read the man pages for pacman-key and pacman.conf to find out more on how
>>> to configure your system to deal with this.
>>>
>>> You can get developer keys from:
>>> http://www.archlinux.org/developers/
>>>
>>>
>>> Allan
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Works like a charm. Thanks again for the assistance. I missed  #GPGDir
>>  = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/ in the new pacman.conf file or I would have
>> investigated further. I only had one other problem, importing Andreas
>> Radke's key. I get a key not found error both when I click the link on
>> the developers page and when I try to import the key with pacman-key.
>>
>
> You can get it from:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Signing_Packages/Packager_Keys
>
> Allan
>
Thank you again. Sorry to be such a pia. That took care of the gnutls
update and I bookmarked the page.

Myra


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