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[Git][pacman/pacman][release/7.1.x] libmakepkg: fix linting of xdata
by Allan McRae (＠allan) 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Allan McRae pushed to branch release/7.1.x at Pacman / Pacman Commits: 54d94116 by Allan McRae at 2026-01-07T21:33:46+10:00 libmakepkg: fix linting of xdata Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> (cherry picked from commit 2979f35840f1adbb04fee2d224d114a079c0e803) - - - - - 1 changed file: - scripts/libmakepkg/lint_pkgbuild/xdata.sh.in View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/54d94116164b0b2202c6061… -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/54d94116164b0b2202c6061… You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.archlinux.org.

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[Git][pacman/pacman][master] libmakepkg: fix linting of xdata
by Allan McRae (＠allan) 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Allan McRae pushed to branch master at Pacman / Pacman Commits: 2979f358 by Allan McRae at 2026-01-07T21:30:47+10:00 libmakepkg: fix linting of xdata Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> - - - - - 1 changed file: - scripts/libmakepkg/lint_pkgbuild/xdata.sh.in View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/2979f35840f1adbb04fee2d… -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/2979f35840f1adbb04fee2d… You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.archlinux.org.

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[Git][pacman/pacman][release/7.1.x] repo-add: prevent package file deletion with -R is readding a package
by Allan McRae (＠allan) 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Allan McRae pushed to branch release/7.1.x at Pacman / Pacman Commits: 563f038b by Allan McRae at 2026-01-07T10:25:07+10:00 repo-add: prevent package file deletion with -R is readding a package Using "repo-add -R" on a package file that was already present in the repo resulted in the package file being deleted. Given the package file was being readded to the repo, this was likely not the desired outcome. Fixes #294. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> (cherry picked from commit 5ff7d06b5c63952b2e2e229b7bcdfe58d6c22306) - - - - - 1 changed file: - scripts/repo-add.sh.in View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/563f038b27bdd977079bfb5… -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/563f038b27bdd977079bfb5… You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.archlinux.org.

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[Git][pacman/pacman][master] Add Sccache support.
by Allan McRae (＠allan) 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Allan McRae pushed to branch master at Pacman / Pacman Commits: 2c3146dc by Arya Storm at 2026-01-07T10:12:24+10:00 Add Sccache support. - - - - - 10 changed files: - doc/PKGBUILD.5.asciidoc - doc/makepkg.conf.5.asciidoc - etc/makepkg.conf.in - scripts/libmakepkg/buildenv.sh.in - scripts/libmakepkg/buildenv/compiler.sh.in - scripts/libmakepkg/executable/meson.build - + scripts/libmakepkg/executable/sccache.sh.in - scripts/libmakepkg/lint_config/buildenv.sh.in - scripts/makepkg.sh.in - scripts/po/POTFILES.in View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/2c3146dcca6ae74d40db141… -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/2c3146dcca6ae74d40db141… You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.archlinux.org.

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[Git][pacman/pacman][master] meson: use built-in summary function
by Allan McRae (＠allan) 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Allan McRae pushed to branch master at Pacman / Pacman Commits: 80e3a98b by Thomas Lange at 2026-01-07T09:54:57+10:00 meson: use built-in summary function See also: https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual_functions.html#summary - - - - - 1 changed file: - meson.build View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/80e3a98b258705a04f64c31… -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/80e3a98b258705a04f64c31… You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.archlinux.org.

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[Git][pacman/pacman][master] repo-add: prevent package file deletion with -R is readding a package
by Allan McRae (＠allan) 06 Jan '26

06 Jan '26

Allan McRae pushed to branch master at Pacman / Pacman Commits: 5ff7d06b by Allan McRae at 2025-12-20T19:47:09+10:00 repo-add: prevent package file deletion with -R is readding a package Using "repo-add -R" on a package file that was already present in the repo resulted in the package file being deleted. Given the package file was being readded to the repo, this was likely not the desired outcome. Fixes #294. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> - - - - - 1 changed file: - scripts/repo-add.sh.in View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/5ff7d06b5c63952b2e2e229… -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/5ff7d06b5c63952b2e2e229… You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.archlinux.org.

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Bug report for "pacman -Sc" (not) handling directories
by Victor Toni 02 Jan '26

02 Jan '26

While calling "pacman -Sc" I got the following errors: [root@rhino ~]# pacman -Sc 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... error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-gLbPvZ: Error reading fd 7 error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-uTHinP: Error reading fd 7 error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-5u2OCC: Error reading fd 7 Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/ :: Do you want to remove unused repositories? [Y/n] y removing unused sync repositories... [root@rhino ~]# The reason is that the paths are actually pointing to directories: [root@rhino ~]# rm /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-gLbPvZ rm: cannot remove '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-gLbPvZ': Is a directory [root@rhino ~]# rm -r /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-gLbPvZ [root@rhino ~]# rm -r /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-uTHinP [root@rhino ~]# rm -r /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-5u2OCC After deleting the directories manually no more errors: [root@rhino ~]# pacman -Sc 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... Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/ :: Do you want to remove unused repositories? [Y/n] removing unused sync repositories... [root@rhino ~]# Maybe pacman could check for directories as well to avoid manual clean up. Wish you all a happy new year, Victor PS: I would have loved to report this issue directly to the GitLab instance but I somehow fail in the process to register...

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vlc-noX = 3.0.23 cannot be provided:
by -pj 02 Jan '26

02 Jan '26

Hi, I am trying to upgrade openSUSE Tumbleweed. There is a problem with vlc-noX = 3.0.23 not being provided. # zypper dup Refreshing service 'openSUSE'. Looking for gpg keys in repository Games. gpgkey=https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_Tumbleweed… Retrieving repository 'Games' metadata ...............................................................................................................................................................................................[done] Building repository 'Games' cache ....................................................................................................................................................................................................[done] Looking for gpg keys in repository repo-oss-debug. gpgkey=http://cdn.opensuse.org/debug/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/repomd.xm… Retrieving repository 'repo-oss-debug' metadata ......................................................................................................................................................................................[done] Building repository 'repo-oss-debug' cache ...........................................................................................................................................................................................[done] Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you continue. See 'man zypper' for more information about this command. Computing distribution upgrade... Problem: 1: the to be installed vlc-codecs-3.0.23-1699.4.pm.1.x86_64 requires 'vlc-noX = 3.0.23', but this requirement cannot be provided not installable providers: vlc-noX-3.0.23-1699.4.pm.1.i586[packman-essentials] vlc-noX-3.0.23-1699.4.pm.1.x86_64[packman-essentials] Solution 1: Following actions will be done: keep obsolete phonon-vlc-qt6-0.12.0-2.6.x86_64 keep obsolete vlc-codecs-3.0.21-1699.14.pm.21.x86_64 keep obsolete vlc-noX-3.0.21-1699.14.pm.21.x86_64 keep obsolete libvlc5-3.0.21-1699.14.pm.21.x86_64 keep obsolete libvlccore9-3.0.21-1699.14.pm.21.x86_64 keep obsolete vlc-qt-3.0.21-1699.14.pm.21.x86_64 Solution 2: Following actions will be done: keep obsolete vlc-noX-3.0.21-1699.14.pm.21.x86_64 keep obsolete libvlc5-3.0.21-1699.14.pm.21.x86_64 keep obsolete libvlccore9-3.0.21-1699.14.pm.21.x86_64 keep obsolete vlc-qt-3.0.21-1699.14.pm.21.x86_64 Solution 3: deinstallation of phonon-vlc-qt6-0.12.0-2.6.x86_64 Solution 4: deinstallation of vlc-codecs-3.0.21-1699.14.pm.21.x86_64 Solution 5: break vlc-codecs-3.0.23-1699.4.pm.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/3/4/5/c/d/?] (c): hightower-i5-6600k:~> zypper if vlc-codecs Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Information for package vlc-codecs: ----------------------------------- Repository : packman-essentials Name : vlc-codecs Version : 3.0.23-1699.4.pm.1 Arch : x86_64 Vendor : http://packman.links2linux.de Installed Size : 110.0 KiB Installed : Yes (automatically) Status : out-of-date (version 3.0.21-1699.14.pm.21 installed) Source package : vlc-3.0.23-1699.4.pm.1.src Upstream URL : http://www.videolan.org Summary : Additional codecs for the VLC media player Description : This package enhances the functionality of the VLC media player by codecs that are not available in the stock openSUSE distribution. hightower-i5-6600k:~> zypper if vlc-nox Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Information for package vlc-noX: -------------------------------- Repository : packman-essentials Name : vlc-noX Version : 3.0.23-1699.4.pm.1 Arch : x86_64 Vendor : http://packman.links2linux.de Installed Size : 14.0 MiB Installed : Yes Status : out-of-date (version 3.0.21-1699.14.pm.21 installed) Source package : vlc-3.0.23-1699.4.pm.1.src Upstream URL : http://www.videolan.org Summary : VLC without X dependencies Description : This package of VLC contains the bare requirements you need to install. There is no graphical user interface included, thus it is also perfectly suitable for server installations, for example, to run a streaming server. Should you decide to install the GUI modules, vlc-noX will stay installed as a dependency. hightower-i5-6600k:~> Can you tell me why this is happening?

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