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FS#27980 - pacman-4.0 requires libassuan

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dmytro Bagrii (dimich) - Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 00:52 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 01:18 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: If libassuan is not installed and pacman is upgraded to 4.0 it becomes to be unusabe: libassuan.so.0 is required. It becomes unable to install libassuan or downgrade pacman or do anything using pacman at all.

Additional info: pacman 4.0.1-4

Steps to reproduce:
* Using pacman v.3 uninstall libassuan (or ensure that it's not installed) and upgrade pacman.

Variant of steps to recovery the system:
* Download libassuan package file from a mirror (e.g. http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/i686/libassuan/download/)
* Unpack the file to the root of the filesytem directly with tar/xz. Remove /.INSTALL and /.PKGINFO.
* Run ldconfig (possibly it's not required).
* Reinstall libassuan from the repository using pacman with --force flag.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 01:18 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  Fixing broken systems is up to you if you skip dependency checks...
Comment by einar (esjurso) - Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 01:01 GMT
Can't happen. pacman depends on gpgme, gpgme depends on gnupg2, gnupg2 depends on libassuan.

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