Guys: There is a strange dependency with pyalpm that prevented upgrade to pacman 4 which I solved by -- installing pyalpm?? Installing pyalpm pulled in pacman as a dependency which successfully completed the upgrade, but pacman would not -Syu and upgrade on its own. That doesn't make sense. The -Syu error was: :: The following packages should be upgraded first : pacman :: Do you want to cancel the current operation :: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] y resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: pyalpm: requires pacman<3.6 So I tried the following and answered NO to the pacman upgrade. Evidently pyalpm pulled it in as a dep anyway: 15:18 providence:~/dt/icons/coolicons/openOffice> sudo pacman -Sy --needed pyalpm :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date archlinuxfr is up to date xyne-any is up to date downloading kdemod3.db... phoenix is up to date :: The following packages should be upgraded first : pacman :: Do you want to cancel the current operation :: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] n resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (3): libarchive-3.0.3-2 pacman-4.0.1-4 pyalpm-0.5.3-1 Total Download Size: 2.20 MB Total Installed Size: 6.20 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages from core... libarchive-3.0.3-2-i686 1215.4K 720.0K/s 00:00:02 [#######################################] 100% pacman-4.0.1-4-i686 1005.0K 693.3K/s 00:00:01 [#######################################] 100% :: Retrieving packages from extra... pyalpm-0.5.3-1-i686 36.8K 194.3K/s 00:00:00 [#######################################] 100% (3/3) checking package integrity [#######################################] 100% (3/3) checking for file conflicts [#######################################] 100% (1/3) upgrading libarchive [#######################################] 100% (2/3) upgrading pacman [#######################################] 100% warning: /etc/pacman.conf installed as /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew
Run `pacman-key --init` to set up your pacman keyring. (3/3) upgrading pyalpm [#######################################] 100%
Not sure if this is an issues that will catch others trying to upgrade, but it definitely was a screwy way to work-around pacman not upgrading on its own... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.