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jimdunn

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Registered: 2017-06-05

Posts: 5

pacman -Syu kills qbittorrent

I read in the FAQ this question:

        What if I run a full system upgrade and there will be
        an update for a shared library, but not for the apps
        that depend on it?

And the answer was:

        This scenario should not happen at all.

I laughed, because I've had qBitTorrent stop working twice in the last 6 months due to the rasterbar library getting an update that wasn't compatible.

QUESTION:  Is there any way (other than excluding qbittorrent and rasterbar) to "group" the compatible programs, only allowing an update when both are ready?

Thx!

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: pacman -Syu kills qbittorrent

I haven't seen that happen at all, but if you do then file a bugreport to have qbittorrent rebuilt...

When the FAQ says "This scenario should not happen at all" what they mean is "This scenario only happens when the maintainer makes a mistake deserving of a bugreport".

And no, there is no pacman feature to accommodate for errors in package maintenance. File a bugreport against qbittorrent.

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jimdunn

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Registered: 2017-06-05

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Re: pacman -Syu kills qbittorrent

Ok, thx!!

Slithery

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Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: pacman -Syu kills qbittorrent

Are you using qbittorrent from the repos or one of the versions in the AUR?

Edit - Just seen from one of your other posts that you are using qbittorrent-qt4 from the AUR, this is what is causing the issue.
You are responsible for rebuilding packages from the AUR when a shared library gets updated - not pacman.
Simply rebuild and reinstall qbittorrent-qt4 every time librasterbar gets updated.

Your original wiki quote is correct - but only for packages in the official repositories. If you use the AUR then it's your responsibility.

Last edited by Slithery (2017-06-12 16:17:00)

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jimdunn

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Registered: 2017-06-05

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Re: pacman -Syu kills qbittorrent

I actually switched to the qbittorrent-qt4 in the AUR after having the problem with the qbittorrent in the arch repo.

(at first I used "pacman -S qbittorrent" but had 2 occasions where the rasterbar lib was updated and qbittorrent wouldn't run, so I did an "IgnorePkg = qbittorrent ...rasterbar..." in the /etc/pacman.conf for a while)

Then I tried the "yaourt -S qbittorrent-qt5" for a while, then IT ALSO had an issue, so I switched to the qbittorrent-qt4, which was easier for me to manage myself.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: pacman -Syu kills qbittorrent

From the version history, qbittorrent seems to treat libtorrent ABI stable on at least point release versions, but according to eg. https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/comp … eport.html that's not entirely correct.

This might be an assertion violation upstream or a misconception by the qbittorrent maintainer. Feel free to raise that concern.

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