Hi,
I am just bumping a couple of patches because I have been bitten by this issue again, twice in the last few days...
1) http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-April/011562.html This allows makepkg to catch an error from when pacman is unable to remove installed dependencies after makepkg successfully builds a package and instead prints warning. There was a discussion about whether this should print a list of packages that were installed as dependencies, but I still feel that this is covered by using "pacman -Qtd" and "tail /var/log/pacman.log".
I don't see any clean solution for this. My main problem: it is impossible to restore the "before makepkg" state. If we upgraded a package, we cannot downgrade (btw. I hope we don't remove it now!); if we have an orphan package and we installed package which needs it, with -Rs we does an unwanted orphan. vmiklos's method seems safer to me here...
2) http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-April/011569.html This is a pactest that flags one of the causes of the above issue. If you try to remove the dependency chain pkg1 -> pkg2 -> pkg3 with "pacman -Rs "pkg1 pk3", pacman fails. I realize this is adding a failing pactest without solution, but it is probably something libalpm should be able to handle.
As you probably saw, I sent a patch for this in that thread.
Thanks, Allan
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