[arch-dev-public] [signoff] pacman 4.0.0-2

[Dan McGee]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Am 14.10.2011 07:34, schrieb Allan McRae:
>> On 14/10/11 15:10, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>>> I just noticed a somehow unexpected behavior: When I run "pacman -S
>>> devtools" (still had namcap version 3.1) pacman wanted to install these
>>> pacakges:
>>>   namcap-3.1-1  pacman-3.5.4-4  pyalpm-0.4.3-1  subversion-1.6.17-6
>>> devtools-0.9.27-1
>>
>> I am majorly confused as why a "pacman -S devtools" would pull
>> namcap/pyalpm/pacman in if you already had namcap installed and there
>> are no versioned deps for devtools.  I assume you had subversion
>> installed too...
>
> no, here is how I did it: When noticing that pacman wont upgrade due to
> pylibalpm being incompatible I removed it with Rcsn which also removed
> devtools. The next day I tried pacman -Syu and pacamn -.S devtools which
> results in the behavior described.
>
> Also, even after syncing my repo I still had trouble updating. Note
> that I had pacman 3.5 and the old pyalpm at this time. As -Syu then
> wanted to update pacman first to 4.0 but failed as it did not update
> libalpm at the same time. I guess this is a different issue with
> SyncFirst. It only updates pacman and its deps but no those packages
> that depend on a specific pacman version and therefor fails. I am not
> sure if we can solve this issue in a sane way though. At least we should
> add this to the announcement that one needs to temporary remove pyalpm
> before updating pacman and reinstall it afterwards.
Or treat this like any other TODO list and have all the packages ready
to go in [testing], just like it is now.

-Dan