[arch-general] Re: pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

The 22/12/11, Angel Velásquez wrote:

The experts, normal people, and even noobs like me would say to you .. PLEASE READ THE NEWS DUDE, (its like the 5th time you write a mail asking questions, when the solution it's posted on the front page)..

Don't you think you're big enough to learn this amazing trick?

OTOH, news related to updates are *not* at the correct place on the home web page. When I do admin tasks I would expect to read news in my _shell_ just before the update. Also, think that the packages updates might be later done offline after a refresh & downloadonly. People at Gentoo did a good tool exactly for this purpose: (shell prompt) # eselect news Usage: eselect news <action> <options> Standard actions: help Display help text usage Display usage information version Display version information Extra actions: count Display number of news items new Count unread news items (default) all Count all news items list List news items purge Purge read news read <item>... Read news items --mbox Output in mbox format --quiet Suppress output, only change status --raw Output in raw format new Read unread news items (default) all Read all news items item Number of item (from 'list' action) unread <item>... Mark read news items as unread again all Mark all news items as unread item Number of item (from 'list' action) # News sample: (shell prompt) # eselect news read 2 2010-03-25-python-3.1 Title Python 3.1 Author Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis Posted 2010-03-25 Revision 1 Python 3 is a new major version of Python and is intentionally incompatible with Python 2. Many external modules have not been ported yet to Python 3, so Python 2 still needs to be installed. You can benefit from having Python 3 installed without setting Python 3.1 as main active version of Python. Currently you should not set Python 3.1 as main active version of Python. When setting it becomes recommended, a separate news item will be created to notify users. Although Python 3.1 should not be set as main active version of Python, you should run python-updater after installation of Python 3.1. By default, modules that support both Python 2 and Python 3 are installed for both the active version of Python 2 and the active version of Python 3 when both Python 2 and Python 3 are installed. It is recommended to use a UTF-8 locale to avoid potential problems. Especially C and POSIX locales are discouraged. If locale has not been explicitly set, then POSIX locale is used, so you should ensure that locale has been set. Problems occurring only with non-UTF-8 locales should be reported directly to upstream developers of given packages. See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml for more information about UTF-8. With 'eselect news read' you only get fresh news you didn't read yet. This feature was a big success, very appreciated by users. -- Nicolas Sebrecht