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noubi

Member

Registered: 2012-09-09

Posts: 1

Dependencies of pacman

Hello,

Today pacman is dynamically linked to a lot of libraries, so when an error occur about the update these libraries, pacman will not work any more

To illustrate, let me show you what I did.

# pacman -Suy
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
glibc: /lib exists in filesystem

# pacman -S glibc
:: valgrind: requires glibc<2.16

# pacman -S valgrind --force
error: extract: not overwriting dir with file lib

# pacman -Suy
/usr/bin/pacman: No such file or directory

# ls
/bin/ls: No such file or directory

Of course this is the worth case, because now glibc do not exist any more and the system will not reboot :-(

So I have two questions:
- What I should do to avoid this situation ?
- Is it not possible to link statically to have an independent pacman of the libraries update errors ?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,797

Re: Dependencies of pacman

...- What I should do to avoid this situation ?

Read the News and the Forums. 
http://www.archlinux.org/news/the-lib-d … a-symlink/
http://www.archlinux.org/news/filesyste … equired-1/

Is it not possible to link statically to have an independent pacman of the libraries update errors ?

I think that has been discussed as well, but it really isn't your problem

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Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,291

Re: Dependencies of pacman

Nothing stops you from doing so. You could always have a static pacman somewhere on your hard disk. This is probably not a bad idea.