[arch-general] lib -> usr/lib move, glibc and curl

[Daniel Wallace]

On Aug 21, 2012 6:04 AM, "Christian Hesse" <list at eworm.de> wrote:
>
> Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com> on Tue, 2012/08/21 11:01:
> > On Tuesday 21 Aug 2012 11:05:07 Christian Hesse wrote:
> > > Oh, the commands in the wiki exclude curl now. Did not notice that.
> > >
> > > I am fine with the situation, I can deal with these things. Hopefully
> > > others will read the wiki. :D
> >
> > For those like me that followed the news article's instructions first
and
> > ran into the curl issue, I fixed this by coping the old curl package
(that
> > was just replaced) from /var/cache/pacman/pkg into an empty
subdirectory in
> > my home directory and unpacked it.  Then, as root I replaced the
> > /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4.2.0 library with the one found in the package.
 This
> > fixed pacman, allowing me to downgrade curl properly with "pacman -U".
> >
> > The rest can then be done as described on the wiki page.
>
> That is exactly what I did. ;)
>
> And do not forget to reinstall curl to have the recent version in place.
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You could have untared the old package into an empty directory, then from a
root shell used LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/old/libcurl.so pacman -Su