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pn

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[RESOLVED] Arch websites CAPTCHA

Hi,

I tried to understand the commands that the website gave me without using Linux

To open an account here it was quite easy to do by hands, so i haven't any question about it

But for the wiki one, it asks for the version of pacman and it refuses unless you give him a recent version of pacman and libalpm. How did you manage to do that ? You've done the BASE32 of each version possible of the output ? (because i tried with 1.1.1 and 0.0.0 and 11.1.1 and it denies)

I """retro engeneered""" pacman with pacman sources to get the output of "-V"

I finally succeed by copiying a pacman and libalpm version of internet

You only admit recent version or what ?

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seth

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Re: [RESOLVED] Arch websites CAPTCHA

without using Linux

https://bbs.archlinux.org/misc.php?action=rules

The captchas should be no obstacle to archlinux users.

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schard

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Re: [RESOLVED] Arch websites CAPTCHA

Well, they are only required on registration, so that should be okay.
I also occasionally write here in these forums from my Windows 10 workstation.
I don't think, that the forums are limited to the currently-used-to-post operating system being Arch Linux, but rather to the operating system of the computer you seek help for.

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pn

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Re: [RESOLVED] Arch websites CAPTCHA

I'm using Arch btw, i'm just curious about the process for the pacman -V one if someone knows

progandy

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Re: [RESOLVED] Arch websites CAPTCHA

the wiki runs on arch linux, the question changes when its pacman version is updated

https://git.archlinux.org/infrastructur … c794e58ccb

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pn

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Re: [RESOLVED] Arch websites CAPTCHA

So if you haven't the same packages as the server you won't in

Clever

For information, i used a 23 days old post from Manjaro support forum (Pacman v5.2.1 - libalpm v12.0.1), lucky that there wasn't any update since

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progandy

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Re: [RESOLVED] Arch websites CAPTCHA

You might run into some issues if there is a new pacman version in the testing repository and you use it or during the time frame where the repository version differs from the wiki version during regular updates. (probably a few hours?)

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pn

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Re: [RESOLVED] Arch websites CAPTCHA

Orrrrrr, more likely to happen, if you don't madly update your packages

For me it's not a really good solution to make checkings who depends on packages of people

It's funny to make that kind of script but for a public infrastructure, making that the entry door...