[arch-general] Pacman 4.0.0rc2

[Axilleas P]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:

> You don't need to be as daring this time- we've had some 246 commits
> since RC1. The most relevant changes is signing is about 95%
> functional at this point- see directions below the links.
>
> * pacman -U
> http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc2-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
> * pacman -U
> http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
>
> Please report any issues you may find with this package, as it is
> getting very close to being an actual releasable version. These are
> debug builds with symbols, so getting stack traces and helpful logging
> should be relatively straight forward if necessary.
>
> == How to enable package signature checking ==
> 1. Install above pacman RC package.
> 2. sudo pacman-key --init
> 3. `SigLevel = Optional` in pacman.conf is the default- for more info,
> see man pacman.conf, but this means signatures will be checked *if
> available*, and there will be no error if they are not. However, due
> to us not having a web of trust for Arch developer keys, you will need
> to add this to the [options] section:
> SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
> 4. Run -Syu or any other operation that fetches packages from sync
> databases. When it comes time to check package integrity, you may be
> prompted to import keys that are not in your keychain. If a signature
> is available, it will be used instead of sha256sums/md5sums.
>
> -Dan
>

Hi, all worked well following the above steps. Is there any working version
of devtools with pacman 4?

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