On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:24:52 +0200
Ralf Mardorf
Hi :)
how can be ensured that e.g. linux-headers are updated first in the future?
I couldn't find a word on the English Arch website and just the information that it is ignored now, without a hint what to do, on the German website.
[root@archlinux yaourt-git]# pacman -Syu warning: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 19: directive 'SyncFirst' in section 'options' not recognized. :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date multilib is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: ardour: ignoring package upgrade (2.8.16-1 => 3.0-1) there is nothing to do
[rocketmouse@archlinux yaourt-git]$ yaourt -Syu [sudo] password for rocketmouse: warning: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 19: directive 'SyncFirst' in section 'options' not recognized. :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date multilib is up to date warning: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 19: directive 'SyncFirst' in section 'options' not recognized.
Regards, Ralf
Hooks have been suggested as a possible solution to this problem as far back as 2010[1] (there is some interesting comments in that bug report), but no one have cared enough about it to bother to actually do something about it. (It's just like the package signing story!) A certain other distro which shall rename unnamed have decided to patch back SyncFirst into pacman 4.1, so if you can't wait for/be bothered to implement hooks, you may want to look at their project. Alternatively you can wrap pacman to make sure that the headers is always installed before whatever requires them. [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20165