[manjaro-dev] next pacman

[Guillaume Benoit]

I'm open to all ideas, I just saw that manjaro-system is the only 
package that to be in SyncFirst.
What are the other packages we have to take care of?
Guillaume.

Le 06/12/2014 12:37, Philip Müller a écrit :
> Hi Guillaume,
>
> is manjaro-systems the only package we have to take care of? Is it
> better to some configuration so we can decide which packages should be
> installed/checked first? Your patch is fine. I rather would have an
> additional option to also check for other packages. Maybe we will
> introduce something which needs the same checkings.
>
> ... maybe I'm wrong and we can handle all with manjaro-system.
>
> Phil
>
> Am 05.12.2014 um 15:50 schrieb Guillaume Benoit:
>> As some of you already know, pacman 4.2 should be released this month.
>> I already worked on porting pamac to this new version because it comes
>> with some API changes.
>> I also worked on an idea I had now I know better pacman an libalpm
>> concerning SyncFirst option.
>> Manjaro comes with a custom version a pacman with a revert patch to
>> continue to use SyncFirst even if it has been deprecated by pacman
>> developers. The only reason is to update manjaro-system package first
>> to perform some actions before the real update.
>> I propose a 30 lines patch to replace syncfirst patch which permits
>> two things:
>> -- avoid the usage of syncfirst option in /etc/pacman.conf
>> -- auto update manjaro-system package first when required and continue
>> the transaction with the need to relaunch pacman.
>> To allow you to have an idea I join a PKGBUILD with the new patch.
>> This a first version of the patch, I you have some idea to improve,
>> tell me.
>> What do you think about it ?
>>
>> Guillaume.
>>
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