On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Allan McRae
1. update ABS 2. cp /var/abs/community-testing/pacman-contrib/* . 3. adjust dependencies to be depends=('pacman>4') 4. makepkg -s, type in your password. It will reinstall pacman from the repos and then bail because on missing deps 5. notice file named "4" in you directory containing pacman output...
Yep, now i see: pacman-contrib $ cat 4 warning: downgrading package pacman (3.4.0-1 => 3.3.3-5) resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (1): pacman-3.3.3-5 Total Download Size: 0.00 MB Total Installed Size: 2.09 MB checking package integrity... checking for file conflicts... upgrading pacman... However, this is no longer an issue after my patch and can confirm that there's no $startdir/4. $ printf %q\\n "pacman>4" pacman\>4 Andres P