To start out I get this error constantly: error: /var/lib/pacman/local/pacman-rc-3.0.0-7/desc: No such file or directory
makepkg and pacman (note I had pacman3 and makepkg3 aliased to pacman and makepkg) version 3 and 2 both spit out these errors, v2 moreso than v3. Some examples are:
pacman -Syu ... all goes fine ... resolving dependencies... error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/pacman-rc-3.0.0-7/desc: No such file or directory done.
and pacman goes through fine, non-fatal.
It is probably because you upgraded pacman-rc with pacman2 and because pacman 2 can't handle changelog files it does not delete /var/lib/pacman/local/pacman-rc-3.0.0-7/changelog, which then means it cannot delete /var/lib/pacman/local/pacman-rc-3.0.0-7 because it isn't empty. So because the directory still exists pacman goes in and tries to find the desc file but it can't hence your error. Solution: rm -r /var/lib/pacman/local/pacman-rc-3.0.0-7/ ~ Jamie / yankees26