On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 23:50:49 +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: >In fact, I guess it's sort of a logical requirement to using archlinux >to catch these things, because, as is denoted in the wiki, partial >updates are unsupported [0] and your system forcefully goes through >partially updated state during an update... Hi, is there anything speaking against making such updates more comfortable? Since the login shell is affected, it's not a simple chicken-and-egg problem an Arch user usually expects to happen. Providing a transition package including libncursesw.so.5 might cause to much work, but why not at least mentioning it by the news on https://www.archlinux.org/ ? It seemingly wasn't a serious issue for the OP and it neither hits me between the eyes, however, a user might have a bad day and doesn't notice it, especially if it's not mentioned by the news. Btw. thank you Damjan for the heads up :). My workaround was to mv -i the libs [1]. Btw. packages from AUR are affected too. 2 cents, Ralf [1] [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ ls -hog /usr/lib/*ncurs* -rw-r--r-- 1 18 Sep 15 05:47 /usr/lib/libncurses.so -rw-r--r-- 1 20 Sep 15 05:47 /usr/lib/libncurses++.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 17 Apr 22 18:03 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.9 -rwxr-xr-x 1 342K Dec 6 2014 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.9 lrwxrwxrwx 1 18 Sep 15 05:47 /usr/lib/libncurses++w.so -> libncurses++w.so.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 16 Sep 15 05:47 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so -> libncursesw.so.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 18 Apr 22 18:05 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.5 -> libncursesw.so.5.9 -rwxr-xr-x 1 402K Dec 6 2014 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.5.9 lrwxrwxrwx 1 20 Sep 15 05:47 /usr/lib/libncurses++w.so.6 -> libncurses++w.so.6.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 18 Sep 15 05:47 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6 -> libncursesw.so.6.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 76K Sep 15 05:47 /usr/lib/libncurses++w.so.6.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 435K Sep 15 05:47 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6.0
