Re: [arch-general] race condition when upgrading the new ncurses package

2015-09-19 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 09/19/2015 06:28 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 11:16:11 +0100, Mauro Santos wrote: >> You can always do 'pacman -Syuw' until you manage to download all the >> packages. > > A pacman -Syu will do the same as a pacman -Syuw when it can't download > all packages ;). However, a

Re: [arch-general] race condition when upgrading the new ncurses package

2015-09-19 Thread Dylan Scott
> Pacman downloads all packages before installing any of them. So if you have > a bad Internet connection then you'll be stuck at the first (download) > step. It will not leave your system in broken state. That's true. However, I broke my system pretty badly with this update. I must have

Re: [arch-general] race condition when upgrading the new ncurses package

2015-09-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 19:53:50 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 19:29:33 +0200, I wrote without thinking: >>No, since I read the mail of the OP before the update was available >>here, I tested it, because I was curious, since nothing was mentioned >>by the news. After installing

[arch-general] race condition when upgrading the new ncurses package

2015-09-19 Thread Simon Hanna
> > A pacman -Syu will do the same as a pacman -Syuw when it can't download > all packages ;). However, a user perhaps wants to update a few packages > that are important for development or regarding security issues and > might try to update other packages some days later, then Syu(w) isn't > an

Re: [arch-general] race condition when upgrading the new ncurses package

2015-09-19 Thread Mauro Santos
On 19-09-2015 10:53, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 17:28:58 +0800, Anatol Pomozov wrote: >> Hi >> >> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf >> wrote: >> >>> >>> However, installing just a few packages instead of all packages needs >>> to be done, if

Re: [arch-general] race condition when upgrading the new ncurses package

2015-09-19 Thread Anatol Pomozov
Hi On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > However, installing just a few packages instead of all packages needs > to be done, if the Internet connection get interrupted too often to > make a complete upgrade in one step. So a note by the Arch news

Re: [arch-general] race condition when upgrading the new ncurses package

2015-09-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 17:28:58 +0800, Anatol Pomozov wrote: >Hi > >On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > >> >> However, installing just a few packages instead of all packages needs >> to be done, if the Internet connection get interrupted too often to

Re: [arch-general] race condition when upgrading the new ncurses package

2015-09-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 11:16:11 +0100, Mauro Santos wrote: >You can always do 'pacman -Syuw' until you manage to download all the >packages. A pacman -Syu will do the same as a pacman -Syuw when it can't download all packages ;). However, a user perhaps wants to update a few packages that are

Re: [arch-general] race condition when upgrading the new ncurses package

2015-09-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 13:54:10 +0200, Simon Hanna wrote: >I wonder where in Germany you are that you don't have a good >connection It might be slow, but you should have internet >basically all the time It's a little bit too off-topic. I want to mention that this update didn't really cause

Re: [arch-general] kservice-5.14.2 broken

2015-09-19 Thread Genes Lists
This has been patched and works fine now (5.14.2-2) Thank you! gene