Hi I was updating an archroot, created with mkarchroot to play with lxc. I thought following would work but it was doing something else altogether ------------------------ [root@bheem lxc]# pacman -Su -c /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ --root=$PWD/server1 Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ Packages to keep: All locally installed packages Do you want to remove all other packages from cache? [Y/n] ^C Interrupt signal received ------------------------ I think I lost a few packages during this because following command lead to a 30MB worth of download. ------------------------ [root@bheem lxc]# pacman -Su --cachedir=/var/cache/pacman/pkg/ --root=$PWD/server1 ------------------------ What did pacman do the first time? The man page does not have bare -c option and it wasn't -Sc where it started cleaning the packages(or was it?) And just to be sure.. I wanted to run pacman on the host again.. and eh? I lost my synced dbs? Thats strange.. ------------------------ [root@bheem lxc]# pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... error: core.db appears to be truncated: 3990/0 bytes error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirrors.kernel.org : Failed error: core.db appears to be truncated: 3990/0 bytes error: core.db appears to be truncated: 3990/0 bytes error: core.db appears to be truncated: 3990/0 bytes error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirrors.easynews.com : Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds core is up to date 0.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [---------------------------------------------------------------------] 0% extra 1416.8 KiB 205K/s 00:07 [#####################################################################] 100% community 1917.7 KiB 206K/s 00:09 [#####################################################################] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... there is nothing to do ------------------------ -- Regards Shridhar
