On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 13:25:29 -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: > Hey all, > > Allan pushed glib 2.16-2 into [testing] which removes /lib as a > directory, replacing it with a symlink. A bit of advice... > > - In the simplest case, the upgrade can be done as simply as: > > pacman -Syu --ignore glibc && pacman -S glibc > > - Since nothing is ever simple, if the above still fails on installation > of glibc (with a somewhat cryptic "/lib exists" error), you'll need to > figure out what's still in /lib that doesn't belong to glibc. > Generally this will end up being modules/. pacman -Qo /lib/* will > pinpoint what needs fixing/removing. Deal with anything that isn't > owned explicitly by glibc and complete the installation. > > It shouldn't need to be said, but I'll mention it anyways: > > Do. Not. Use. (the) --force. Obi-wan approves of this. Also, install busybox so you have statically linked tools to fix your system if it breaks (specifically "rmdir" and "ln"). Geert -- geert.hendrickx.be :: geert@xxxxxxxxxxxx :: PGP: 0xC4BB9E9F This e-mail was composed using 100% recycled spam messages!
