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

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 08:27:56 EDT 2008


On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Roman Kyrylych
>
> <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  Aha! That explains things.
>  >  It was definetely the old libarchive version that accompanied 3.1.3
>  >  pacman on that snapshot.
>  >
>
>  If it was the old version ( <= 2.4.12 ), then nothing is explained and
>  it remains a mystery.
>  If it was a newer version ( >= 2.4.14 ), it explains it.
>  But you didn't say which version, so I don't know :)

Test case that should test Xavier's theory:
1. Start from clean image
2. pacman -Syu (I believe this should prompt you to upgrade both
pacman and libarchive to 2.4.17)
3. Now try all ssh-related steps

-Dan




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