[pacman-dev] .pacnew created when not needed, was: [signoff] openssh 5.0p1

[Roman Kyrylych]

2008/4/11, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Roman Kyrylych
>
> <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >   0) I have clean install from 0.4 archboot iso (IIRC) in vmware with
>  >   pacman 3.1.3 and no openssh, only some packages were upgraded, so
>  >   package database is not broken
>
>
> Hmm, you had 3.1.3, but which libarchive version?
>  As Dan previously stated, the main reason for 3.1.4 release was this commit :
>  http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=pacman.git;a=commitdiff;h=3fe43ffa04efd9937205938ef74d9dbba1a7aa42;hp=562442633a9dd8026d914d785f15de2d0a95fdef
>
>
>  > Logs are attached.
>  > As can be seen from upgrade.log pacman makes a wrong decission when
>  > comparing existing, new and original md5sums (original is empty).
>
>
> pacman didn't make a wrong decision, the problem is indeed that the
>  original md5sum is empty. This could for example be caused by the bug
>  fixed by the above commit.

Aha! That explains things.
It was definetely the old libarchive version that accompanied 3.1.3
pacman on that snapshot.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)