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atze

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From: Netherlands (Leiden)

Registered: 2005-10-22

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pacman database? problem?

Heey all,

I have a problem with pacman. Everytime i want to upgrade (-Syu option) it wants to update wine. Trying to remove wine looks ok (doesn't give any error).
When i do pacman -Qi wine i get this:

[atze@mara ~]$ pacman -Qi wine
Name           : 
Version        : 
Groups         : None
Packager       : 
URL            : 
License        : None
Architecture   : 
Size           : 0
Build Date     :  
Install Date   :  
Install Script : Yes
Reason:        : explicitly installed
Provides       : None
Depends On     : None
Required By    : None
Conflicts With : None
Description    : 

Does anybody know how to solve this?

Greetinx Atze

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: pacman database? problem?

ok, remove the wine package and check the directory doesn't exist afterwards in  /var/lib/pacman/local if it does remove it. Now go and delete your entire /var/lib/pacman/extra tree and do pacman -Sy wine. The -y to pacman will rengerate the extra tree you deleted. I'm thinking there may be a corruption in it somewhere. If that doesn't work there might be something screwy with the mirrors at the moment.

atze

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From: Netherlands (Leiden)

Registered: 2005-10-22

Posts: 76

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Re: pacman database? problem?

thnx that solved the problem!

Moo-Crumpus

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From: Hessen / Germany

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Re: pacman database? problem?

why did you start a poll, atze?

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AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: pacman database? problem?

I've got the same issue with a few packages running Arch64. I can't resolve it that way.

Any other idea?

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: pacman database? problem?

are you getting the same error message? could you post it?

AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: pacman database? problem?

No. Looks different:

[root@workstation64 andyrtr]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 current                  [################] 100%      45K    32.9K/s  00:00:01
 extra                    [################] 100%     120K    60.2K/s  00:00:01
 community                [################] 100%       2K     4.4K/s  00:00:00

Targets: enchant-1.1.6-2 libraw1394-1.1.0-2 qt-3.3.5-1

Total Package Size:   10.7 MB

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] n
[root@workstation64 andyrtr]# pacman -Qi enchant libraw1394 qt
Name           : enchant
Version        : 1.1.6-2
Groups         : None
Packager       : Arch Linux (http://www.archlinux.org)
URL            : http://www.abisource.com/enchant/
License        : None
Architecture   : x86_64
Size           : 438774
Build Date     : Fri Oct 21 17:31:39 2005 UTC
Install Date   : Fri Feb  3 19:34:09 2006 UTC
Install Script : No
Reason:        : explicitly installed
Provides       : None
Depends On     : aspell glib2
Required By    : abiword libsexy
Conflicts With : None
Description    : A wrapper library for generic spell checking

Name           : libraw1394
Version        : 1.1.0-2
Groups         : None
Packager       : Arch Linux (http://www.archlinux.org)
URL            : http://www.linux1394.org/
License        : None
Architecture   : x86_64
Size           : 143211
Build Date     : Thu Oct  6 15:21:54 2005 UTC
Install Date   : Fri Feb  3 19:34:09 2006 UTC
Install Script : No
Reason:        : explicitly installed
Provides       : None
Depends On     : glibc
Required By    : kdebase
Conflicts With : None
Description    : Provides an API to the Linux IEEE1394 (FireWire) driver

Name           : qt
Version        : 3.3.5-1
Groups         : None
Packager       : Arch Linux (http://www.archlinux.org)
URL            : http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/index.html
License        : None
Architecture   : x86_64
Size           : 31830086
Build Date     : Fri Sep 30 13:44:58 2005 UTC
Install Date   : Fri Feb  3 19:34:10 2006 UTC
Install Script : Yes
Reason:        : explicitly installed
Provides       : None
Depends On     : libjpeg libpng x-server
Required By    : arts ihu kdelibs qca qca-tls qscintilla sip
Conflicts With : None
Description    : The QT gui toolkit.

[root@workstation64 andyrtr]#

A discussion in #archlinux64 irc has shown that more Arch64 users have this problem. But everytime with the same packages

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: pacman database? problem?

what does

vercmp "1.1.6-2" "1.1.6-2"

give you? It should return 0. If not, that may be your problem. I'm not sure how to fix that or why it happened....

AndyRTR

Developer

From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: pacman database? problem?

[root@workstation64 andyrtr]# vercmp "1.1.6-2" "1.1.6-2"
0

Looks like it works well.

AndyRTR

Developer

From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: pacman database? problem?

Ok. I got it solved. There were some packages in most recent and an older version on the ftp server. That's why pacman always want's to update them. Removing the old version solves it.