On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Shridhar Daithankar <ghodechhap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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?) "-Sc" and "-S -c" do the same thing. It's just two different ways to write the options. It would have been better to answer no instead of hitting ^C. > > And just to be sure.. I wanted to run pacman on the host again.. and eh? I lost my synced > dbs? Thats strange.. > That might be because of the aborted command earlier. You can use "pacman -Syyu" if they are still broken. > ------------------------ > [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
