[arch-general] when keys are not updated

Jude DaShiell jdashiel at panix.com
Wed Jun 23 15:33:37 UTC 2021


Is pacman -S archlinux-keyring one of the first post-installation notes
for archlinux?  If not, that could maybe help those new to archlinux.


On Wed, 23 Jun 2021, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:

> On 6/23/21 11:01 AM, mikau--- via arch-general wrote:
> > On 2021-06-22 12:03, Jude DaShiell via arch-general wrote:
> >> It turns out installing archlinux-keyring fixed this problem.  I wasn't
> >> aware that package was missing from this system.
> >
> > I recently had a similar problem where an -Syu didn't work until manually
> > upgrading archlinux-keyring. I think if pacman were to do this
> > automatically
> > (if upgrading multiple packages and archlinux-keyring is one of them,
> > upgrade it first), we could get rid of this inconvenience.
>
>
> This used to exist as "SyncFirst", but it was a pile of hot garbage so
> it got removed. e.g.
>
> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2012-February/015123.html
>
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