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

[Anatol Pomozov]

Hi

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com>
wrote:

>
> However, installing just a few packages instead of all packages needs
> to be done, if the Internet connection get interrupted too often to
> make a complete upgrade in one step. So a note by the Arch news IMO
> still is useful.
>

Pacman downloads all packages before installing any of them. So if you have
a bad Internet connection then you'll be stuck at the first (download)
step. It will not leave your system in broken state.