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FS#29865 - [Feature] A default config or option for fallback or reintall pacman if this are "break"

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Pablo Lezaeta (Jristz) - Sunday, 13 May 2012, 07:42 GMT
Last edited by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Wednesday, 06 June 2012, 14:16 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Scripts & Tools
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version git
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
Many user or situation (corrupt filesystems for example) mae pacman or options of this break or make unreadables or inaccesibles
My proposal is making a script or any machanism to "reinstall" Pacman (or any part of this) if the Pacman itself are breaking or any script (like mirrorlist or pacman.conf) are unreadable
This may be archieve by a pacman-independant script that download pacman and reinstall this from the "old" way (extracting to root dir?) or any other script

maybe a Pacman-break mirrorlist re/install tjhe /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist for example
this downloading for wget an "fallback archive" located in a "master predefined (maybe www.archlinux.org itself) server" and reinstaling them


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Closed by  Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Wednesday, 06 June 2012, 14:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  Your system is your own responsibility.
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Wednesday, 06 June 2012, 14:16 GMT
Config isn't even the important part of pacman when it breaks hard. Without a mirror list existing, where do you download pacman from? Where do you get dependencies?

There's no shortage of user contributed documentation on how to recover pacman if you break a library dependency. The rest can be covered by due diligence and keeping backups, as any sane user will do.
Comment by Pablo Lezaeta (Jristz) - Wednesday, 06 June 2012, 23:28 GMT
I talk abou pacman itself, a form to reinstall pacman if pacman...for example libalpm break or corrupt in a electricity scenario for example.

and finaly I want write a "min" script for downloads the needed to recovery pacman, no problem if i put the script in the wikia (in the respective secction obvious)??

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