[arch-general] filesystem package update

[Maximilian Kaul]

On 14-11-01 13:47:08, Maximilian Kaul wrote:
> On 14-11-01 13:20:18, A Rojas wrote:
> > Maximilian Kaul wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi list,
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to update my system and the filesystem package gives me some
> > > trouble:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Packages (2):
> > > 
> > > Name             Old Version  New Version  Net Change
> > > 
> > > core/filesystem  2014.07-1    2014.10-3      0.01 MiB
> > > core/iana-etc                 2.30-4         3.56 MiB
> > > 
> > > Total Installed Size:   3.57 MiB
> > 
> > It looks like your current installation is quite broken... filesystem 
> > 2014.07 should own all those files, and iana-etc has been a dependency of 
> > filesystem for a long time. Did you do anything unusual when you updated to 
> > filesystem 2014.07?
> 
> The only thing I can think off is a system crash during an update a long
> time ago. I think I had to remove pacman's lockfile manually after the
> next reboot but had no other trouble with that.
> Is there a way to fix the ownerships of this directories/files?
> I can't find anything in pacman's manpage and Google didn't turn up with
> anything promising either.

I just copied
/var/lib/pacman/local/filesystem-2014.07-1/files
from another, non-broken, installation and everything seems to work again.
Is there anything else I have to pay attention to?