[arch-dev-public] News draft: libtraceevent>=5.9-1 update requires manual intervention

Jan Alexander Steffens jan.steffens at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 22:07:33 UTC 2020


On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 3:20 AM Sébastien Luttringer via
arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> The libtraceevent package prior to version 5.9-1 was missing
> a soname link. This has been fixed in 5.9-1, so the upgrade will
> need to overwrite the untracked files created by ldconfig. If you get any
> of these errors
>
>     libtraceevent: /usr/lib/libtraceevent.so.1 exists in filesystem
>
> when updating, use
>
>     pacman -Syu --overwrite usr/lib/libtraceevent.so.1
>
> to perform the upgrade.
>
>
> Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer

Was libtraceevent 5.9 never in [community-testing]?

Next time, please release the affected package to [*testing] together
with the draft.


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