[manjaro-dev] next pacman

[Rob McCathie]

manjaro-keyring and archlinux-keyring for starters, having them sync 
first would save some users from issues.
Mainly it's for when a keyserver that holds a packager's key is down or 
is having connections problems for the user - this does happen, there's 
a number of examples on the forums - the manjaro-system script has no 
redundancy for this. It can also be problematic when a new signature 
gets added by Arch and an update for an already installed package is 
signed with it.

Actually, in February this year Phil used manjaro-system to add the 
keyring packages to SyncFirst[1], but never adjusted the default 
pacman.conf in the pacman package, so new install medias made after that 
didn't have the change.

Then in September i did it again[2] and this time also updated the stock 
pacman.conf so it would be permanent[3][4], however, shortly after Phil 
reverted the change[5]. I did ask why but never got any real 
explanation. ;-p


[1] 
https://github.com/manjaro/packages-core/commit/614b168d668183c4ff291b967b8a6ddf495e1af7#diff-a7315ea10d82bde98e13fc896f5b8bf9R79
[2] 
https://github.com/manjaro/packages-core/commit/ca7d3d40c47dc127c026239f0c0b4cc0f27c478e
[3] 
https://github.com/manjaro/packages-core/commit/27fcb34afff225a5427594e965b506d0ded1a82c
[4] 
https://github.com/manjaro/packages-core/commit/b5b8ddd357149fed78c94812f57e077f9d14a949
[5] 
https://github.com/manjaro/packages-core/commit/802cb7ede9d376e2276b5f76d030249175752f41

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Regards,

Rob McCathie

On 07/12/14 00:08, Philip Müller wrote:
> Currently it is just manjaro-systems. I rather recommend to make it 
> configurable. For example with the SyncFirst= line or some extra 
> config file if needed. If we just create a function for just one 
> package it would make not much sense. Some people still have added the 
> keyring packages in SyncFirst= line. If you can config it it is much 
> more flexible for later needs.
>
> Am 06.12.2014 um 14:04 schrieb 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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