On Tuesday 29 September 2009 21:19, Xavier wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Nigel Henry > > <cave.dnb2m97pp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks for the link to the bug. > > > > Just after I posted the problem, I tried reverting to the earlier pacman > > package "pacman-3.3.0-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz" , which works with no problems. > > Then upgraded to pacman-3.3.1-1, where the problem returned. > > > > Currently I'm running the earlier version, and have temporarily added > > pacman to the IgnorePkg list. > > > > Thanks for your quick reply. > > That is bad news. The bug I fixed should exist since pacman 3.3.0 > (since we moved to libfetch). > It is quite strange that you cannot reproduce the problem with that. > > Any chances you could try the patch I posted in the bug report ? > > You will have to get pacman 3.3.1 PKGBUILD though abs, and edit the > PKGBUILD to apply that patch. I'll have a go at that tomorrow, as I'm currently downloading ocaml for the second time (on dialup), and don't want to mess with pacman until that's installed. Nigel.
