Metapackages

laughingman · 2010-07-30 14:07:39

Hi,

it seems that it is not longer possible to download meta-packages with pacman, e.g. if I "pacman -S gnome", gnome will be downloaded as a single package and I can't deselect any applications in the gnome package. Can anyone confirm this bug or provide a solution?

Regards,
LM

Runiq · 2010-07-30 14:36:52

I reinstalled the day before yesterday and encountered the same with the xorg metapackage.

wonder · 2010-07-30 14:41:06

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19853

Ulkesh · 2010-08-10 13:13:35

I'm having the same problem, any news on this?

falconindy · 2010-08-10 14:10:47

Ulkesh wrote:

I'm having the same problem, any news on this?

Same as it was when it was reported the first time a few days after the release of pacman 3.4: patches welcome. The change was made to fix a bug, and this was an unfortunate side effect. I've looked at the code, and I personally dont see a non-hackish way fix it without reintroducing the same bug.

That said, there's no shortage of workarounds using basic unix tools. Two examples...

$ pacman -Sgq groupname > foo
-- remove unwanted packages in foo --
# pacman -S $(< foo)

# pacman -S $(grep -vE "pkg1|pkg2|pkg3" <(pacman -Sgq groupname))

Hell, I can even think of about 5 lines of Bash that would mimic pacman's old behavior.

How often do you really install entire groups of packages?

Ulkesh · 2010-08-10 14:22:45

falconindy wrote:

Same as it was when it was reported the first time a few days after the release of pacman 3.4: patches welcome. The change was made to fix a bug, and this was an unfortunate side effect. I've looked at the code, and I personally dont see a non-hackish way fix it without reintroducing the same bug.
That said, there's no shortage of workarounds using basic unix tools. Two examples...
$ pacman -Sgq groupname > foo
-- remove unwanted packages in foo --
# pacman -S $(< foo)

# pacman -S $(grep -vE "pkg1|pkg2|pkg3" <(pacman -Sgq groupname))
Hell, I can even think of about 5 lines of Bash that would mimic pacman's old behavior.
How often do you really install entire groups of packages?

The bug report linked above is fairly empty, any places where workarounds/patches have been discussed so one could have a look?

Allan · 2010-08-10 20:59:54

The pacman-dev mailing list might have a few messages about this, but no patches etc.

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#1 2010-07-30 14:07:39

Metapackages

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