FS#27980 - pacman-4.0 requires libassuan
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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
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
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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...
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.