[arch-general] arch install issues with 2013.09 iso & vfat device

[arnaud gaboury]

Dear all,

this is my second arch install this month (archlinux-2013.09.01-dual.iso)
on an usb key to get a live Arch. Both installs failed on a vfat formated
device, when they succed on ext2.
$ pacstrap /mnt base returns lot of these erros:
warning: warning given when extracting usr/bin/vgrename (Can't create
'/mnt/usr/bin/vgrename')
......

It seems, even in chroot, that I can't write the vfat formated device

I would like to use vfat as these keys are aimed to boot Arch from windows
machines and share files.
I used gdisk and fdisk to partition, then mkfs.vfat to format, on clean usb
keys.
Is there anything I missed ?

Then, there is an issue with package vi:
error: could not open file
/mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg/vi-1:050325-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.part: Invalid
argument
I first # pacman-key --init && pacman-key --populate archlinux
and # pacman -Syy

The only way to succed the install was :
# pacstrap -i /mnt base --ignore vi

I must add that earlier installs with earlier iso did not show this issue.
Maybe shall I open a bug report, or is this a known issue ?

Last, the above command returns :
:: vi is in IgnorePkg/IgnoreGroup. Install anyway? [Y/n]

It seems weird to me that default is Yes, as I specified --ignore vi.
Would' nt it makes more sense to default No ?

Regards.