New pacman -Sc floods screen with warnings
Just updated and went to clear old cache packages with 'pacman -Sc' and... 05:35 2pi:~> pms -c Packages to keep: All locally installed packages Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ :: Do you want to remove all other packages from cache? [Y/n] removing old packages from cache... warning: png2ico: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: png2ico: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: png2ico: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: png2ico: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: png2ico: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: png2ico: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: png2ico: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: png2ico: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: png2ico: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: abs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: abs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: abs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: abs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: abs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: abs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: abs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: abs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: abs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description ..... <snip 50-70 more What's up with this? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Hi, for me, it also affects countless local packages. Theoretically if something has become obsolete, backwards compatibility should still be maintained. However, David, how often do you use abs nowadays ;)? I had no time to check the affected packages yet, but maybe we can remove all of those packages. Maybe all those packages are useless. Regards, Ralf
On Sat, 2024-03-16 at 13:50 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
I had no time to check the affected packages yet, but maybe we can remove all of those packages. Maybe all those packages are useless.
Hi, on my install there were 17 (countless ;) packages. Only 3 of those packages are available by the aur, the other packages aren't provided by a repository. I removed (-Rss) almost all of them and kept only 2 packages, rxvt and gtk2_prefs. Almost all were installed as a dependency for another package. Only libmatewnck, rxvt, abs, gtk2_prefs, libmatekeyring and mate- character-map were explicitly installed. 1 Rss local/genus2reduction 2 Rss local/libmatewnck 3 Rss aur/lib32-libtxc_dxtn 4 kept local/rxvt 5 Rss local/soprano 6 (and local/virtuoso-base) (additionally extra/libiodbc was removed, unneeded by me) 7 Rss local/libzeitgeist 8 Rss local/abs 9 kept aur/gtk2_prefs 10 Rss local/qt5-jsbackend 11 Rss local/libmatekeyring 12 Rss local/libaccounts-qt4 13 Rss local/liblxqt-mount 14 Rss local/libqzeitgeist 15 Rss local/mate-character-map 16 Rss local/kde-agent 17 Rss aur/libtxc_dxtn I guess I also don't need rxvt and gtk2_prefs and will remove them soon or later. Regards, Ralf
On 3/16/24 07:50, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
maintained. However, David, how often do you use abs nowadays ;)?
Hehehe... I didn't even snap to abs being one that was pegged. I hope I saved that list somewhere so I can go triage the rest. On a lighter note, 6.8.1 updated flawlessly, the patched AUR Nvidia 390xx worked like a champ and ICU didn't even break my older PHP install. I'll check the other packages pacman complained about. That's the difficulty with servers running since '15 on Arch, there do seem to be some strays left behind, but Arch just keeps running, and running and running.... A fine testament to the smart folks that make it that way. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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