[pacman-dev] little bug with pacman and root

VMiklos vmiklos at frugalware.org
Mon Jun 5 18:37:21 EDT 2006


On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 01:23:58PM +0200, Wael Nasreddine <wael at siemens-mobiles.org> wrote:
> This makes it work but there's still one bug, Let pacman actually<br>
> download the packages, before it begins installation cancel it, then<br>
> run it again and now pacman is stuck, no /var/cache/pacman can be<br>
> created and package already in /tmp so pacman does not look for it in<br>
> /tmp instead it tries to download it and of course it fails since the<br>
> file already exists...<br>

hmm, how to reproduce this?

# LANG= LC_ALL= pacman -Swd openoffice.org

Targets: openoffice.org-2.0.2.9-1

Total Package Size:   104.1 MB

Total Uncompressed Package Size:   320.8 MB

Proceed with download? [Y/n]

:: Retrieving packages from frugalware-current...
warning: no /var/cache/pacman/pkg cache exists.  creating...
warning: couldn't create package cache, using /tmp instead
 openoffice.org-2.0.2.9-1 [-----c**********]  37%   39624K    6217K/s 00:00:11

i've interrupted here

# LANG= LC_ALL= pacman -Swd openoffice.org

Targets: openoffice.org-2.0.2.9-1

Total Package Size:   104.1 MB

Total Uncompressed Package Size:   320.8 MB

Proceed with download? [Y/n]

:: Retrieving packages from frugalware-current...
warning: no /var/cache/pacman/pkg cache exists.  creating...
warning: couldn't create package cache, using /tmp instead
 openoffice.org-2.0.2.9-1 [--------c*******]  56%   60056K    1854K/s 00:00:26

continued without any problem

udv / greetings,
VMiklos

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