[arch-general] Pacman version 2.98 or pacman 3.0

[Aaron Griffin]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Aaron Griffin<aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Baho Utot<baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 14:48 -0400, Daenyth Blank wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 13:03, Baho Utot<baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>>> > I need pacman 2.98 or 3.0 and the dependencies, either the PKGBUILDS or
>>> > the binaries.
>>> >
>>> > I need this for an older system (distro)
>>> >
>>> > Is it still available?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>> Out of curiosity, why do you need the old copies?
>>
>> The current version just have too many dependencies to be able to use
>> them.  The older one only needs libtar,fakeroot and libdownload.  THe
>> new one requires somewhere around 10.
>
> pacman itself only requires libarchive and libdownload/libfetch...
> makepkg and friends bring in the other deps.
>
> Also note that the old pacman did not use libdownload - that was added
> in 3.0 I believe
>
> Still... the old versions are just bad compared to the current pacman

https://dev.archlinux.org/packages/core/i686/pacman/

Deps are libarchive, libdownload, bash, and the mirrorlist package...
what are you having a problem with?