The pacman 3.5 thread (merged threads)

crnv · 2011-03-24 14:40:08

EDIT: This will only work if you have enabled the archlinux.fr repo:

Instead of removing and reinstalling the packages you can also force pacman to install the packets upfront. Add the packages to the "SyncFirst" line in /etc/pacman.conf:

SyncFirst = pacman pacman-color yaourt package-query

Source (Site is in French):
http://archlinux.fr/news/sortie-de-pacman-3-5-0

Last edited by crnv (2011-03-24 14:43:06)

Danny8 · 2011-03-24 22:32:55

Hello, I am having problems upgrading pacman also.

I had both yaourt and pacman-query installed. I uninstalled both.
I did not have pacman-color installed on this system. (I used it on a different system before.)

Now I cannot upgrade pacman, nor can I re-install package-query. I did not try to reinstall yaourt.

When I try to upgrade pacman, it appears to hang.

 >> pacman -Q | grep pac
pacman 3.4.3-1
pacman-mirrorlist 20110313-1
wavpack 4.60.1-1

 >> pacman -S package-query
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "pacman>=3.5", a dependency of "package-query"
:: the following package(s) cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      package-query

Do you want to skip the above package(s) for this upgrade? [y/N] y
looking for inter-conflicts...
 there is nothing to do

 >> pacman -S pacman
warning: pacman-3.4.3-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): pacman-3.4.3-1

Total Download Size:    0.67 MB
Total Installed Size:   2.30 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from core...
-- and it just sits there for a long time
-- until I interrupt it with ctrl-c

^C
Interrupt signal received

Thanks for any help offered.

SS4 · 2011-03-24 22:46:19

Looks like an out of date mirror, especially since pacman 3.5 has hit core.

Change your mirror and/or pass pacman -Syy to force refresh

I use

Server = ftp://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64                                                                                                                                                    
Server = ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Last edited by SS4 (2011-03-24 22:47:37)

Danny8 · 2011-03-24 22:58:36

Thank you very much! I used [ below ] and pacman upgrade went smoothly.

Server = ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Postscript: Did a full system upgrade and afterwards re-installed yaourt. Yaourt and package-query installed fine. Now I should probably select a mirror that's a bit closer to home!

Last edited by Danny8 (2011-03-24 23:09:51)

karlzt · 2011-03-24 23:00:15

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=908033

SS4 · 2011-03-24 23:14:29

Danny8 wrote:

Postscript: Did a full system upgrade and afterwards re-installed yaourt. Yaourt and package-query installed fine. Now I should probably select a mirror that's a bit closer to home!

My top two mirrors are in the US and Australia respectively (I live in England!)

I would suggest to use this site http://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/ to check for an up to date mirror

yochaigal · 2011-03-25 03:44:42

To fix mine, I had to grab package-query from AUR; after installing against newer pacman things got better.

rashfeather · 2011-03-25 03:51:51

Ugh. I can't seem to get anywhere with fixing this. Updated my mirrors, ran pacman -Syy, removed powerpill and yaourt (package-query and pacman-color were never installed), then got stuck:

[tess@misaki pacman.d]$ sudo pacman -S pacman
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: perl-xyne-arch: requires pacman<3.5

Update
It never fails, I post a question, and I fix it two minutes later. If anyone else is getting stuck like me you need to remove Reflector so perl-xyne-arch can be removed:

pacman -Rs reflector perl-xyne-arch

Last edited by rashfeather (2011-03-25 03:57:05)

cylverbak · 2011-03-25 13:17:06

@rashfeather
Thanks for that. Fixed my pacman update problem too. I'd just recently installed reflector.

ANOKNUSA · 2011-03-25 14:32:49

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 93#p907993

aohan237 · 2011-03-26 04:20:30

sudo pacman -Rs perl-xyne-arch
正在检查依赖关系...
错误：无法准备事务处理 (无法满足依赖关系)
:: powerpill: 要求 perl-xyne-arch>=1.0
-------------------------------------------------------
i can't remove perl-xyne-arch ,it shows that it needs some dependences....

i can still not to upgrade with "pacman -Syu"

ngoonee · 2011-03-26 04:46:59

aohan237 wrote:

sudo pacman -Rs perl-xyne-arch
正在检查依赖关系...
错误：无法准备事务处理 (无法满足依赖关系)
:: powerpill: 要求 perl-xyne-arch>=1.0
-------------------------------------------------------
i can't remove perl-xyne-arch ,it shows that it needs some dependences....
i can still not to upgrade with "pacman -Syu"

You will need to remove powerpill as well.

jasonwryan · 2011-03-26 05:19:47

merging...

archman-cro · 2011-03-26 08:41:48

For future reference, where can I find out newly introduced stuff like the need for 'options=(!strip)' in a makepkg v3.5 and such that are crucial to build a customized kernel? pacman.git? (I've searched it, but couldn't find anything)

I'm asking this 'cause I haven't been able to build virtualbox modules for my kernel with an old PKGBUILD setup (without options=(!strip)') after updating pacman to 3.5.

tomk · 2011-03-26 08:53:08

That's not a new option.

archman-cro · 2011-03-26 11:04:47

tomk wrote:

That's not a new option.

When did I say that's a new option?
But it's definitely needed to be included in PKGBUILD now (it's included in a stock ARCH kernel PKGBUILD). So my question is, why is that needed now and where can I read about it? pacman's code?

Last edited by archman-cro (2011-03-26 11:05:50)

Allan · 2011-03-26 11:18:52

http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.gi … ?id=v3.5.1

mariusmeyer · 2011-03-26 11:32:02

I hope I'm not off topic here, since this thread seems to concern mostly upgrade problems... But I think the new pacman is AWESOME!!!

Great job Dan, Allan and everybody else who made this happen. IT'S SO FAST! ^^

ngoonee · 2011-03-26 13:32:16

mariusmeyer wrote:

I hope I'm not off topic here, since this thread seems to concern mostly upgrade problems... But I think the new pacman is AWESOME!!!
Great job Dan, Allan and everybody else who made this happen. IT'S SO FAST! ^^

Nah, the title is 'pacman 3.5 thread'

falconindy · 2011-03-26 13:32:47

archman-cro wrote:

tomk wrote:
That's not a new option.
When did I say that's a new option?
But it's definitely needed to be included in PKGBUILD now (it's included in a stock ARCH kernel PKGBUILD). So my question is, why is that needed now and where can I read about it? pacman's code?

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22364

Allan · 2011-03-26 13:40:32

hmm... we used to have a whitelist of directories to strip, but that got removed in pacman-3.5 as it was always incomplete. Maybe a blacklist would be a better idea?

CheesyBeef · 2011-03-28 19:06:47

mikesol wrote:

panzeroceania wrote:

looks like you probably have yaourt installed.
You can either way until package-query and yaourt support pacman 3.5, or you can remove them, then update pacman, and then do your full system update.

Yes indeed, i had the same issue

pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                                                                      37.3K  610.1K/s 00:00:00 [#####################################################################] 100%
 extra                                                                                    468.4K  922.5K/s 00:00:01 [#####################################################################] 100%
 community                                                                                427.9K  564.4K/s 00:00:01 [#####################################################################] 100%
 multilib                                                                                  24.3K  475.5K/s 00:00:00 [#####################################################################] 100%
 archlinuxfr                                                                               26.8K  682.5K/s 00:00:00 [#####################################################################] 100%
:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
    pacman
:: Do you want to cancel the current operation
:: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] y

resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: package-query: requires pacman<3.5

First remove yaourt

pacman -Rs yaourt

upgrade again

pacman -Syu

update the database (?)

pacman-db-upgrade

and finally install yaourt and upgrade again.

Thank you! This worked for me.

Only thing I have to live without for now is Reflector, but that's really no big deal. Just makes system upkeep easier.

anonymous_user · 2011-03-29 15:09:52

CheesyBeef wrote:

Only thing I have to live without for now is Reflector, but that's really no big deal. Just makes system upkeep easier.

Check it out:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=115714

Mr. Alex · 2011-03-29 17:48:11

I can't run pacman-db-upgrade:

# pacman-db-upgrade
zsh: command not found: pacman-db-upgrade

Why? I can't find it in repos either...

flamelab · 2011-03-29 18:12:04

It's within the latest pacman package.

$ pacman -Qo pacman-db-upgrade
/usr/bin/pacman-db-upgrade is owned by pacman 3.5.1-1

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