[arch-general] pacman and corrupt packages

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Jeremiah Dodds
<jeremiah.dodds at gmail.com> wrote:
> Shridhar Daithankar <ghodechhap at ghodechhap.net> writes:
>
>> I deleted ati-dri package and redownloaded it. This time, without any timeouts
>> and it still failed the upgrade with same error for the same package.
>>
>> So I uninstalled ati-dri and xf86-video-ati. I have intel card and got all
>> those extra drivers because I installed the whole group for simplicity.
>>
>> Try again and this time it failed for gcc-libs. Delete, redownload and the
>> error still persists.
>>
>> and I don't think uninstalling gcc-libs is an option.
>>
>> I also found https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28014 but I don't think that can
>> solely fix the issue. --debug is printing enough information or so I would
>> like to think.
>>
>> Pl. Help.
>
> Does it continue after a "pacman -Scc"?
>
Why are you recommending clearing his entire cache (which can be quite
useful) when he's already specifically cleared the offending package
and still has problems?