[pacman-dev] -Sp is broken?

[Dan McGee]

On Oct 3, 2007 1:03 PM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:52:44PM +0200, Nagy Gabor wrote:
> > -Sp simply seems to be broken.
> > If I do pacman -Sp evince, I get the following error:
> > 'error: evince': transaction not initialized
> > error: failed to release transaction (transaction not initialized)
> >
>
> See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6812
>
> git is currently broken because of this commit :
> http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=pacman.git;a=commit;h=b86479cf9b584c62dbda967902cee2a81678c9ef
>
> However, after reverting this commit, this command still needs to be run as
> root for working. That wasn't the case with pacman 3.0 ..

So who wants to tackle this one? Hopefully we can get a real solution
to this crap in 3.2, but we may have to hack something out here for
3.1.

-Dan