[pacman-dev] bug during package upgrade?

[Roman Kyrylych]

2008/3/24, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com>:
> Nagy Gabor a écrit :
>
> > Idézés Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com>:
>  >
>  >> Hi!
>  >>
>  >> Here's Tobias' pacman.log.
>  >> Notice that klibc-kbd is not installed at all, though the newest
>  >> mkinitcpio depends on it.
>  >>
>  >> The line
>  >> [2008-03-21 19:57] installed klibc-kbd (1.15.20080312-4)
>  >> at the bottom is from manual installation.
>  >>
>  >
>  > Hm. I can imagine only one case here: Didn't he accidentally use the -d switch?
>  > It's strange that the packages are upgraded in alphabetical order instead of
>  > topo sort...
>  >
>
>
> lol, of course, it looks so obvious after you said it, yet I didn't
>  think about that at all. Thanks :)
>  With -d, the packages are not sorted, and new dep like klibc-kbd are not
>  pulled. What a stupid option. Maybe pacman should print a warning when
>  it's being used, to prevent accidental use, and also to make everyone
>  aware that it's not safe at all.

Yep, it looks like -d was accidentaly used. I was unable to reproduce the issue.

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)