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alaskanarcher

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Registered: 2016-04-30

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[Closed] Latest News: ca-certificates-utils upgrade intervention, why?

The latest post on the Latest News for Arch Linux describes the user intervention required to upgrade to the latest ca-certificates-utils. It explains that a symlink was moved from being created in a post install script to being a part of the package proper. I understand that, and how that certificate is necessary for downloading packages for upgrades.

What I don't understand is why this step could not have been simply automated? Couldn't the pre upgrade script remove the symlink for you, or simply rename it to be safe? If nothing technically prohibits it, was this to follow an upgrade/PKGBUILD policy I'm not aware of?

Thank you!

Last edited by alaskanarcher (2017-03-19 00:09:15)

damjan

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Re: [Closed] Latest News: ca-certificates-utils upgrade intervention, why?

since the file (the /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt symlink) is now in a package, pacman -Syu can't pass past the "checking for file conflicts" step.
only after that do hooks and unpacking the packages run

alaskanarcher

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Re: [Closed] Latest News: ca-certificates-utils upgrade intervention, why?

Ah, right of course.

Thank you.

jasonwryan

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Re: [Closed] Latest News: ca-certificates-utils upgrade intervention, why?

Please don't use [Closed], it denotes a locked thread, use [Solved] instead.

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