[arch-general] [core/filesystem 2010.10-1 -> 2010.12-1] breaks makepkg and firefox

[Martín Cigorraga]

Hi,

I added core/filesystem to the Ignore= field in pacman.conf.
How will affect my system wait for the next package release while keep
updating the rest of packages as usual?

Thanks!

2010/12/18, Martín Cigorraga <martosurf7600 at gmail.com>:
> 2010/12/18 Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com>
>
>> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 05:14:45PM -0300, Martín Cigorraga wrote:
>> > Dear devs, guys:
>> >
>> > I've been struggling for the past three days trying to find what was
>> > breaking
>> > makepkg [0] script and preventing Firefox to launch. Thanks I do weekly
>> > backups of my system I found after trial & error -updating one package
>> > at
>> a
>> > time- the responsable is the core/filesystem package.
>> > Is anyone else suffering this? I already tried to look for info in
>> > www.archlinux.org/packages but it's not listed there.
>> > Should I open a new ticket at the bugtracker?
>> >
>> > Thanks for any advice.
>> >
>> >
>> > 0. Here are some logs:
>> > makepkg output after installing new filesystem 2010.12-1:
>> > http://aur.pastebin.com/VzRUu6yN
>> > /etc/makepkg.conf (untouched): http://aur.pastebin.com/RnqjbYaX
>> > last pacman's log with filesystem 2010.12-1 package installed:
>> > http://aur.pastebin.com/rZtXgifP
>>
>> Looks to me like the errors are related to yaourt. makepkg doesn't built
>> in /tmp unless you explicitly tell it to.
>>
>> Make sure /tmp is set with permission 1777
>>
>> d
>>
>
>
> Thanks for your quick answer.
>
> @cantabile, @Dave
> Since I didn't upgraded core/filesystem package I have no issues with
> makepkg and FF.
>
> In fact I already installed Dropbox by downloading the PKGBUILD
> and the rest of the files and running makepkg as usual and even up-
> dated aur/calibre-bzr and bleachbit-svn with yaourt without problems.
>
> The problem here is the core/filesystem package that somehow mess
> my system rendering FF and makepkg unusable - either way makepkg is
> invoked, via CLI or thru a pacman wrapper like yaourt).
>
> Regarding the 'missing' package I was talking about core/filesystem.
> When I said I didn't find the package in www.archlinux.org/packages
> I was talking about core/filesystem which I tried to find with the
> x86_64 filter - my bad, I apologize for that.
> The package of course is located here:
> http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/filesystem/
>
> My desire when mailing to the list was to know if anyone else were expe-
> rimenting the same issue as I.
> Just a crazy though: can this be a permissions issue?
>
> What have me so lost is why I'm experimenting this because so far I never
> had any problems in so much time updating the whole system everyday
> or at least every other day. As a plus, despite a bunch of AUR packages
> (yes, I know what that implies but I check everyone of them carefully
> before install'em) I try to keep my system as much as standard and vanilla
> as possible since I use my Arch for everyday job so please discard thinking
> of any obscure changes I could have done.
>
> Thanks again for your time =)
>