The pacman 3.5 thread (merged threads)

Mr. Alex · 2011-03-29 18:15:53

Oh... Thanks.

ssri · 2011-03-30 08:49:31

falconindy wrote:

Removing package-query isn't going to harm anything.

Yup, when in doubt, query the package in question to see if it is a dependency for some other package.

pacman -Qi <package name>

Since package-query is listed as a dependency for yaourt and nothing else, I had no problem removing the two prior to upgrading pacman.

Last edited by ssri (2011-03-30 08:50:44)

jdarnold · 2011-03-30 10:58:51

I would have thought that the upgrade of pacman to 3.5 would rate a front page "Announcement" message, wouldn't you?

SanskritFritz · 2011-03-30 12:28:33

Hmm, I must agree, you're right. I kinda missed that too. If KDE and MySQL deserve such attention, why not pacman?

ngoonee · 2011-03-30 14:52:53

Perhaps you should then seek out who's in charge of the announcements . Don't look at the forum mod team, by the way, we don't touch that.

SanskritFritz · 2011-03-30 14:59:13

ngoonee wrote:

Perhaps you should then seek out who's in charge of the announcements . Don't look at the forum mod team, by the way, we don't touch that.

Man, you're paranoid,

ngoonee · 2011-03-31 02:48:56

SanskritFritz wrote:

ngoonee wrote:
Perhaps you should then seek out who's in charge of the announcements . Don't look at the forum mod team, by the way, we don't touch that.
Man, you're paranoid,

Its not paranoia if they're really out to get you

trusktr · 2011-04-01 04:34:56

I can't upgrade pacman.

I'm also getting this:

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

I don't have reflector or perl-xyne-arch on my system though.... ???

EDIT: when trying the sudo pacman command and pressing tab after "perl-" it didn't appear, but if i log in as admin then it appears. I was mislead, i do have it on my system so i'm removing it.

EDIT#2: I had to remove powerpill.

Last edited by trusktr (2011-04-01 04:39:27)

dedanna1029 · 2011-04-06 05:34:32

I too, have (actually had) the original issue to this thread, looked it up via our forum, saw what was going on with Xyne...

I decided right then and there, that I liked my powerpill, pacman-color, and yaourt all too much to want to let them go, so I downgraded pacman back to previous version, and put it into IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf, while awaiting what comes next (whatever that is).

I really really wish something could be done with pacman and these just for the meantime so I can have my cake and eat it too, but I guess it's not in the cards.

Xyne, you are missed terribly right now.

anonymous_user · 2011-04-06 14:29:19

@dedanna1029 - pacman-color and yaourt work fine with pacman 3.5.1. No powerpill though I you could use aria2 in pacman:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Im … sing_aria2

dedanna1029 · 2011-07-02 21:57:03

Yeah, I know that, but one thing. yaourt isn't working for me right now. I'm getting an as-of-yet-to-be-resolved lexical json error with it.

Aria2 kind of drives me nuts. It sits there with each package, one at a time, and I feel like I'm sitting here forever waiting for it to get each one done like that, and waiting forever for it to find a server for each one, etc. etc. I've gone back to the default, which seems to go faster to me, in pacman:

[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir     = /
#DBPath      = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir    = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile     = /var/log/pacman.log
HoldPkg     = pacman glibc
# If upgrades are available for these packages they will be asked for first
SyncFirst   = pacman
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -C - %u > %o
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/aria2c --allow-overwrite=true -c --file-allocation=none --log-level=error \-m2 --max-connection-per-server=2 --max-#file-not-found=5 --min-split-size=5M --no-conf \--remote-time=true --summary-interval=60 -t5 -d / -o %o %u

... which gives me just good ol' basic pacman, which is faster for me even than Aria2. If I had a screenie I'd show you the difference; it's huge, both in time and in mode of operation. I'd really rather keep my powerpill, thank you, but got into a deal where I absolutely had to upgrade pacman, lost the works on it.

I want it back. ;(

Last edited by dedanna1029 (2011-07-02 21:59:05)

Xyne · 2011-07-02 23:36:31

@dedanna1029
In case you missed it, you can use powerpill-light to download packages until I find the time to release a full replacement.

dedanna1029 · 2011-07-03 02:05:32

Xyne wrote:

@dedanna1029
In case you missed it, you can use powerpill-light to download packages until I find the time to release a full replacement.

Thank you!

YOU ARE A GOD!!!

Last edited by dedanna1029 (2011-07-03 02:11:34)

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