Alexpux <[email protected]> writes:

>>> The best will be build static versions of programs but… for example,
>>> msys ell can’t be build as static easily.
>> 
>> How serious is this error? Can it cause packages on an inconsistent
>> state after an upgrade? Or is it harmless?
>
> When fork errors is happen all files from packages installed but no
> one post-install script be executed. This can lead to some issues in
> future.

This is serious indeed. Statically linking pacman is not enough. The
shell and any executable that can be invoked by a post-install script
needs to be statically linked too, right?

Other than having a parallel copy of the binaries and using it for
running the upgrade, I see no easy solution for this.


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