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FS#9504 - pacman issues misleading message

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Johannes Jordan (FoPref) - Saturday, 09 February 2008, 12:52 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 09 February 2008, 14:04 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

If pacman detects a newer version of itself, it writes:

:: pacman has detected a newer version of itself.
:: It is recommended that you upgrade pacman by itself
:: using 'pacman -S pacman', and then rerun the current
:: operation. If you wish to continue the operation and
:: not upgrade pacman separately, answer no.
:: Cancel current operation? [Y/n]

This is misleading. In fact, if the user answers with "yes", pacman starts upgrading itself. Additionally, the question asked is confusing to the user.


I suggest the following message:
:: pacman has detected a newer version of itself.
:: It is recommended to upgrade pacman first. You will
:: have to re-run the current operation.
:: Upgrade pacman instead of current operation? [Y/n]
This task depends upon

Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Saturday, 09 February 2008, 14:04 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  in git
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 09 February 2008, 13:17 GMT
A patch to fix this has been committed:
http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=pacman.git;a=commit;h=0775c38e72c06b9ad428c4e6dbfd0b6f0cda2818

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