Thanks for the tip, Steve! On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 13:32:20 +0200 > Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Sorry for being unclear, but by "unusable state" I meant that one can > > no longer upgrade the system it using "pacman -Syu" (or whatever the > > command is) because it gives errors. The system itself works fine but > > will run outdated software applications (and often ones with known > > security vulnerabilities). > > I've had this happen several times with Manjaro (and therefore I assume > it would happen with Arch also). All the cases of which I'm aware are > solveable like this: > > pacman -Syu --ignore badpkgname > > The preceding allows the rest of your upgrade to go through. Report the > problem, and in the near future the bad program will be fixed and you > can upgrade the formerly bad package. > > It's really unfortunate that, without --ignore, pacman sees fit to go > through the entire the entire upgrade, perhaps a half hour, and then > tell you there's one bad package and upgrade nothing. Fortunately, in > the time I spent with Manjaro, I saw only two or three cases in which a > package refused to install and took the whole pacman -Syu with it. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > November 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques > of the Successful Technologist > http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- ------------------------------------------ Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris helps the gods that help themselves. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
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