[arch-general] lib -> usr/lib move, glibc and curl

Damjan gdamjan at gmail.com
Wed Aug 22 18:54:39 EDT 2012


>> pacman -Syud --ignore glibc
>>
>> and ended in a broken package manager. pacman is linked against libcurl,
>> which is compiled against glibc 2.16.0 and includes versioned symbols.
>> Luckily I had an old curl package around to temporarily fix the problem and
>> update the system.
>>
>> Others may be out of luck, so... Do you think this needs some more
>> investigation?
>
> This is known, and I don't think we can properly fix it, at least not
> anymore.

How about adding pacman to the default failsafe initramfs.
That way, if anything goes wrong with a big update like this, one could 
finish it up from that initramfs.


-- 
дамјан


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