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mathieui

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Registered: 2009-07-21

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archlinux-installer won't work

Hi, I've been using Archlinux for quite some time now, and now I encounter an issue that I dont know how to solve.
The archlinux-installer package  provides only the /arch/setup script, with the installation manual, so I guess that, in order to use the  «CD-ROM or OTHER SOURCE» I have to do a

pacman -Sd --downloadonly $(pacman -Sql core)
mkdir -p /src/core/pkg/
cp  $(pacman -Sl core| awk '{print $2"-"$3"-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz"}'|tr '\n' ' ') /src/core/pkg/
cd /src/core/pkg/
repo-add core.db.tar.gz *.pkg.tar.gz

But there is one more thing that I can't go through, it's the «package selection» screen.
When I choose «select packages» in the main menu, I can choose base or/and base-devel, but I cannot go further, because if I select «ok» and press enter, I return to the main menu (and I tried with the local source and the ftp).
I checked the bash code, and found an awk command that works only with the us/en version of pacman ( Search for «Name» and «Group» fields, which do not exist because I have a french version of pacman).
I added a sed line to simulate an english version, but I guess it's not enough, since this doesn't work either. (the awk command I speak of is line 762)
If someone could find what's going on, that would be a great help .

And one more thing, I think that we may change the "pacman -Sl core|awk '{print $2}' " by a " pacman -Sql core " line 758 (I don't know since what version of pacman this option is available, but I guess that should be ok for the next iso)