[arch-general] race condition when upgrading the new ncurses package

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com
Fri Sep 18 17:53:50 UTC 2015


On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 19:29:33 +0200, I wrote without thinking:
>No, since I read the mail of the OP before the update was available
>here, I tested it, because I was curious, since nothing was mentioned
>by the news. After installing gptfdisk and readline, there was no
>way to login or to systemd-nspawn from another install. I needed to mv
>back the old ncurses libs, before I could continue.

Ok, I notice the weak point of my argumentation. I enforced a situation
that unlikely happens when running an update, instead of installing
packages individually.


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