[arch-general] Pacman Error: upgrading to same package version again & again

Gaurish Sharma contact at gaurishsharma.com
Tue Feb 16 12:21:38 EST 2010


On Tuesday 16 Feb 2010 6:31:52 pm Nagy Gabor wrote:
> Check /var/lib/pacman/local/, you will probably find many duplicated
> entries there. Then you should manually remove the older entries.
> 
> (This is probably caused by backup or buggy third party scripts. Next
> major pacman release will catch duplicated database entries and warn
> the user.)

Hi,
you are right, there were duplicated entries(which I removed). I think which 
were caused while taking backups via rsync. I wonder, how could I advoid such 
problems in future.

Thanks for helping.
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Regards,
Gaurish Sharma
www.gaurishsharma.com


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