[arch-dev-public] pacman upgrade issue (was: ArchLinux [current] status)

[Jürgen Hötzel]

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:18:32PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On 5/9/07, Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:52:31PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > > Jason, can you take this task on? I want to
> > > a) figure out a solution to the pacman upgrade issue
> > > b) deal with the package cleanup
> > > So I don't have huge amounts of time to spare at the moment.
> >
> > I am also lacking in time.  Can you explain the pacman upgrade issue a
> > little better (there was a bug report about it at one point, right?)?
> >
> > I will make sure something gets done, but I doubt I'll be the one to do it.
> 
> Here we go.  I was about to move pacman 3 to current last night and
> realized there is a minor show-stopper in the upgrade path.
> 
> The way pacman 2.X works, when it finds an upgrade for itself, it
> removes _ALL_ additional targets from the list and adds pacman.  At
> this point, deps have already been resolved.
> 
> So, the new pacman depends on libdownload and libarchive.  Clearing
> out the target list also removes these.  So pacman will download
> pacman3, then try to install it, and fail because dependencies are
> missing.

Workaround: static-only pacman3 build?

Jürgen