Re: [arch-dev-public] Pacman 4.0.0 RC1 "release"

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On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 02:52, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 21/08/11 17:40, Myra Nelson wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:28, Dan McGee<dpmcgee@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>
>>> For the daring, pick your poison (by architecture):
>>>
>>> * pacman -U
>>> http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
>>> * pacman -U
>>> http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/pacman-4.0.0rc1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
>>>
>>> Allan, Dave, and I (and probably a few others) run pacman-git on most
>>> of our systems with no problems, so their should be no real shockers
>>> or problems if you give this a spin. There are no database upgrades or
>>> changes this time so downgrading later should work fine if truly
>>> necessary.
>>>
>>> What we're looking for feedback on:
>>>
>>> * any build failures in makepkg you may see
>>> * if you manage a custom repo, how does repo-add work for you
>>> * does pacman behave as it did before
>>> * if you want to sign packages, does the functionality in makepkg and
>>> the documentation make sense
>>> * same for signing repos- does it work for you
>>>
>>> What we know isn't there yet:
>>> * translations
>>> * a developer keyring (or keyring package)- if you delve into this,
>>> you will need to look at pacman-key for now
>>> * great error messages on verification failure, or ability to import
>>> keys on the fly if it is unknown
>>>
>>> Note that we'd love testing even if you don't plan on touching any of
>>> the new signing stuff- there were 500+ commits worth of changes in
>>> this release, including a switch to curl as the download library, so
>>> anything out of the ordinary should be reported. Please choose -git as
>>> the version in the bugtracker if you do it that way, otherwise email
>>> pacman-dev.
>>>
>>> Happy testing!
>>>
>>> -Dan
>>>
>>
>> This may not be in the right place but I just experienced an error
>> while upgrading. This is the first hiccup I've noticed since
>> installing the pacman-4.0.0.rc1. I put a copy of the pacman log for
>> the last two days and the error messages I'm receiving here:
>> http://pastebin.com/WsCJPpqk .
>>
>> This is a sample of the error, :: File
>> /var/cache/pacman/pkg/avahi-0.6.30-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted
>> (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). It was the same for
>> device-mapper, eject, fakeroot, and lvm2.
>>
>> I tried changing mirrors from rit.edu to mirrors1.kernel.org and
>> resyncing with pacman -Syy. I still received the same errors. Other
>> packages upgraded just fine, inetutils; net-tools; atool. Since I'm
>> not familiar enough with the pacman code I'm not sure where to go
>> next. If I need to file a bug report I will be glad to.
>>
>
> Use --debug to get more detailed error messages.
>
> Basically, signatures are now being included in our repo databases.  You do
> not have them in your pacman keyring so pacman can not validate the package.
>  Read the man pages for pacman-key and pacman.conf to find out more on how
> to configure your system to deal with this.
>
> You can get developer keys from:
> http://www.archlinux.org/developers/
>
>
> Allan
>
>


Cool. That was the answer I was looking for.

Myra

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