[arch-dev-public] WARNING: [testing] broken due to openssl and heimdal rebuilds

[Allan McRae]

On 07/04/10 14:42, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 23:04:32 -0500, Dan McGee<dpmcgee at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Pierre Schmitz<pierre at archlinux.de>
>>> This is some kind of general problem: the system may be inconsistent
>>> during the process of updating and install scripts will fail. In this
>>> case
>>> we need to make sure that libarchive and libfetch are updated right
> after
>>> openssl. This might be solved by increasing the versioned deps of
> pacman
>>> to
>>> libarchive/libfetch to their latest versions which should pull in the
> new
>>> openssl. The problem is that doing so the system is inconsistent/broken
>>> after the first -Syu run.
>>
>> All makes sense now. I'm just afraid of the inconsistent step you
>> noted above, as I know I have caught myself in it before and it is
>> quite painful to be in.
>
> I just tested what happens if I change pacman depends to
> "'libarchive>=2.8.3-3' 'libfetch>=2.30-3'". You need to run -Syu twice but
> everything works fine. The remaining problem is that if you use anything
> else than libfetch to get your packages (e.g. wget or curl) you wont be
> able to update because after the first run those apps are broken.
>
> But I still don't see any chance to solve this in a smooth way. So I would
> change the pacman package that way and post a news item and ask people to
> run -Syu twice and tell them that external download programs cannot be
> used.

External downloaders can be used.   It just has to be done as:
pacman -Syuw
pacman -Su

Allan