On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 23:50:49 +0200, Martti Kühne wrote:
In fact, I guess it's sort of a logical requirement to using archlinux to catch these things, because, as is denoted in the wiki, partial updates are unsupported [0] and your system forcefully goes through partially updated state during an update...
Hi, is there anything speaking against making such updates more comfortable? Since the login shell is affected, it's not a simple chicken-and-egg problem an Arch user usually expects to happen. Providing a transition package including libncursesw.so.5 might cause to much work, but why not at least mentioning it by the news on https://www.archlinux.org/ ? It seemingly wasn't a serious issue for the OP and it neither hits me between the eyes, however, a user might have a bad day and doesn't notice it, especially if it's not mentioned by the news. Btw. thank you Damjan for the heads up :). My workaround was to mv -i the libs [1]. Btw. packages from AUR are affected too. 2 cents, Ralf [1] [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ ls -hog /usr/lib/*ncurs* -rw-r--r-- 1 18 Sep 15 05:47 /usr/lib/libncurses.so -rw-r--r-- 1 20 Sep 15 05:47 /usr/lib/libncurses++.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 17 Apr 22 18:03 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.9 -rwxr-xr-x 1 342K Dec 6 2014 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.9 lrwxrwxrwx 1 18 Sep 15 05:47 /usr/lib/libncurses++w.so -> libncurses++w.so.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 16 Sep 15 05:47 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so -> libncursesw.so.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 18 Apr 22 18:05 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.5 -> libncursesw.so.5.9 -rwxr-xr-x 1 402K Dec 6 2014 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.5.9 lrwxrwxrwx 1 20 Sep 15 05:47 /usr/lib/libncurses++w.so.6 -> libncurses++w.so.6.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 18 Sep 15 05:47 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6 -> libncursesw.so.6.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 76K Sep 15 05:47 /usr/lib/libncurses++w.so.6.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 435K Sep 15 05:47 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6.0