Pacman: Revision history

8 April 2024

• curprev 10:4010:40, 8 April 2024‎ Nl6720 talk contribs‎ 42,137 bytes +68‎ →‎Pacman crashes during an upgrade: undo Special:Diff/528798; pacman --sysroot won't work if essential libraries are missing or broken

5 March 2024

• curprev 04:4504:45, 5 March 2024‎ WyFi talk contribs‎ m 42,069 bytes −6‎ I replaced pacman-cleanup-hook with paccache-hook because it is an improved version of it that is configurable.

10 February 2024

• curprev 14:3214:32, 10 February 2024‎ Erus Iluvatar talk contribs‎ m 42,075 bytes 0‎ →‎Usage: Replace redirect with direct link to page

1 February 2024

• curprev 18:0718:07, 1 February 2024‎ Lahwaacz.bot talk contribs‎ 42,075 bytes −14‎ update interlanguage links Tag: wiki-scripts

22 January 2024

• curprev 05:0305:03, 22 January 2024‎ Es4q talk contribs‎ m 42,089 bytes +14‎ Add link to IT translation

18 January 2024

• curprev 10:1710:17, 18 January 2024‎ Ileska talk contribs‎ m 42,075 bytes +1‎ changed "database" to plural to correctly reflect pacman's behavior

11 January 2024

• curprev 07:4907:49, 11 January 2024‎ Erus Iluvatar talk contribs‎ 42,074 bytes +57‎ →‎Search for a package that contains a specific file: point out the timer has moved to pacman-contrib a while ago
• curprev 07:4807:48, 11 January 2024‎ Erus Iluvatar talk contribs‎ 42,017 bytes +111‎ Undo revision 796650 by AndyRTR (talk) - See follow-up edit Tag: Undo
• curprev 07:2107:21, 11 January 2024‎ AndyRTR talk contribs‎ m 41,906 bytes −111‎ →‎Search for a package that contains a specific file: There's no timer anymore required to sync the db - pacman -Fy is sufficient Tag: Reverted

17 December 2023

• curprev 20:2120:21, 17 December 2023‎ Nergar talk contribs‎ m 42,017 bytes +3‎ →‎dry run: just reworded what was written here to make it clearer.

3 December 2023

• curprev 18:4118:41, 3 December 2023‎ Erus Iluvatar talk contribs‎ 42,014 bytes −36‎ →‎error: GPGME error: No data: community is dead
• curprev 09:5909:59, 3 December 2023‎ Probackup-nl talk contribs‎ 42,050 bytes +607‎ →‎error: GPGME error: No data: Apppened 2 more steps, in case removing /sync/ doesn't improve the error

22 November 2023

• curprev 18:1618:16, 22 November 2023‎ Ua4000 talk contribs‎ 41,443 bytes −926‎ Undo revision 793027 by Firestar (talk) "uu" is copy and paste from the manpage and not a regular usecase. "yy" is not recommended - so don't paste it here as example. The manpage explains both special cases in detail. Tag: Undo
• curprev 05:0705:07, 22 November 2023‎ Firestar talk contribs‎ 42,369 bytes +926‎ the difference between pacman -Syu, -Syyu and -Syuu

11 November 2023

• curprev 11:1711:17, 11 November 2023‎ Lahwaacz talk contribs‎ 41,443 bytes −163‎ Undo revision 791948 by Regid (talk) - it is 3 years old, so not usable Tag: Undo

8 November 2023

• curprev 01:0601:06, 8 November 2023‎ Regid talk contribs‎ 41,606 bytes +163‎ →‎Virtual packages: This is the only list of virtual packages I could find. I don't know how correct it is, if it is up to date, who https://github.com/helixarch is, and so on. It still looks to me within reason. Are there better, or official, or something, methods to create such a list? Tag: Reverted

1 November 2023

• curprev 10:4110:41, 1 November 2023‎ Ua4000 talk contribs‎ 41,443 bytes −2,306‎ Undo the edits by MD, they are out of scope and the steps are not a supported way to solve the issue. Tag: Manual revert
• curprev 08:1608:16, 1 November 2023‎ MD talk contribs‎ m 43,749 bytes +41‎ Minor clarification.
• curprev 08:1308:13, 1 November 2023‎ MD talk contribs‎ 43,708 bytes +2,265‎ Described how to fix 404 errors when it is not possible to do a full system upgrade.

12 October 2023

• curprev 06:5506:55, 12 October 2023‎ Cvlc talk contribs‎ 41,443 bytes 0‎ →‎Installing package groups: listing packages does not require root

25 September 2023

• curprev 12:4412:44, 25 September 2023‎ IOfwq talk contribs‎ m 41,443 bytes −1‎ →‎Additional commands: removed extraneous line
• curprev 12:4412:44, 25 September 2023‎ IOfwq talk contribs‎ 41,444 bytes +235‎ →‎Additional commands: clarification on --print and its formatting

13 August 2023

• curprev 18:4918:49, 13 August 2023‎ Lahwaacz talk contribs‎ 41,209 bytes −325‎ →‎"Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)" error: remove mention of pip - it is covered by Python#Package management

11 August 2023

• curprev 13:4913:49, 11 August 2023‎ Erus Iluvatar talk contribs‎ m 41,534 bytes 0‎ Fix capitalization
• curprev 06:1106:11, 11 August 2023‎ Lahwaacz.bot talk contribs‎ 41,534 bytes 0‎ simplification and beautification of wikilinks (interactive) Tag: wiki-scripts

25 July 2023

• curprev 13:1413:14, 25 July 2023‎ Alad talk contribs‎ 41,534 bytes −137‎ Undo Special:Diff/778186/783677, see the note in Pacman/Package_signing#Upgrade_system_regularly Tag: Manual revert
• curprev 11:2111:21, 25 July 2023‎ Port19 talk contribs‎ 41,671 bytes +66‎ Added link to bug report to the previous edit Tag: Reverted
• curprev 11:1611:16, 25 July 2023‎ Port19 talk contribs‎ 41,605 bytes +71‎ Add documentation on pacman issue https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75574 Tag: Reverted

16 May 2023

• curprev 13:2313:23, 16 May 2023‎ Erus Iluvatar talk contribs‎ 41,534 bytes +233‎ →‎Virtual packages: Add tip about pacman's default behavior, since it can be counter-intuitive (e.g. for the Vulkan driver on AMD GPUs)

31 March 2023

• curprev 04:4304:43, 31 March 2023‎ Lahwaacz talk contribs‎ 41,301 bytes −122‎ Undo revision 774243 by ACS (talk) - that does not clarify anything, the structure of the files in the archive is obvious and you can install to a different location with pacman --root or --sysroot Tag: Undo

30 March 2023

• curprev 15:5315:53, 30 March 2023‎ ACS talk contribs‎ 41,423 bytes +122‎ Explain that a package contains in its own structure the location of the files to be installed because, even it is obvious that the path for the files must be somewhere, it is an essential information about the package and helps the reader to realize that the installation is the (relatively simple) process of placement of those files in the system. Tag: Reverted

1 February 2023

• curprev 10:3510:35, 1 February 2023‎ Cdown talk contribs‎ 41,301 bytes +71‎ reword a bit on the pip thing
• curprev 10:3310:33, 1 February 2023‎ Cdown talk contribs‎ 41,230 bytes +349‎ mention what to do if conflicting with pip

31 January 2023

• curprev 03:1603:16, 31 January 2023‎ Scimmia talk contribs‎ 40,881 bytes −651‎ Undo revision 765859 by Der-Eddy (talk) The timer doesn't do anything for new keys, and it's enabled by default. Nothing to do here. Tag: Undo
• curprev 03:1403:14, 31 January 2023‎ Der-Eddy talk contribs‎ 41,532 bytes +651‎ Added a section about the systemd timer to update the archlinux-keyring which is a common issue with updating Arch Linux. See https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archlinux-keyring/-/tree/master/wkd_sync for more information Tag: Reverted

22 January 2023

• curprev 06:5306:53, 22 January 2023‎ Erus Iluvatar talk contribs‎ m 40,881 bytes +1‎ →‎Search for a package that contains a specific file: fix typo, thanks phone...
• curprev 06:5206:52, 22 January 2023‎ Erus Iluvatar talk contribs‎ m 40,880 bytes −9‎ →‎Search for a package that contains a specific file: Use enable/start
• curprev 03:0403:04, 22 January 2023‎ Pickfire talk contribs‎ m 40,889 bytes +30‎ →‎Search for a package that contains a specific file: Mention provided pacman timer instead of generic timer

10 December 2022

• curprev 11:1011:10, 10 December 2022‎ Lahwaacz talk contribs‎ 40,859 bytes −503‎ revert - specific examples don't belong to the #Hooks section, there is already a tip in #Cleaning the package cache Tag: Manual revert
• curprev 10:2910:29, 10 December 2022‎ Vaargk talk contribs‎ 41,362 bytes +63‎ →‎Cleaning the package cache: Linking to example hook for cleaning the cache Tag: Reverted
• curprev 10:2510:25, 10 December 2022‎ Vaargk talk contribs‎ 41,299 bytes +440‎ →‎Hooks: Add example hook Tag: Reverted

5 December 2022

• curprev 21:3021:30, 5 December 2022‎ Lahwaacz talk contribs‎ 40,859 bytes −209‎ →‎"Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)" error: don't suggest asking before making their own research (also the suggestion should not suggest that the forum is an authoritative platform for such questions) Tag: Manual revert

4 December 2022

• curprev 23:4223:42, 4 December 2022‎ Subject-17 talk contribs‎ m 41,068 bytes −9‎ →‎"Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)" error: minor formatting + link to subsection on posting to forum Tag: Reverted
• curprev 23:3923:39, 4 December 2022‎ Subject-17 talk contribs‎ 41,077 bytes +218‎ →‎"Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)" error: Denote what to do if you think --overwrite is the correct course of action Tag: Reverted

27 November 2022

• curprev 17:0317:03, 27 November 2022‎ Regid talk contribs‎ m 40,859 bytes −4‎ →‎Pacman does not honor proxy settings: Direct the reader to a closer line in the destination article where the term in question is mentioned

15 October 2022

• curprev 14:5814:58, 15 October 2022‎ Xayiver talk contribs‎ m 40,863 bytes +1‎ →‎"Unable to find root device" error after rebooting: add a comma
• curprev 14:5814:58, 15 October 2022‎ Xayiver talk contribs‎ m 40,862 bytes +1‎ →‎"Cannot open shared object file" error: add a comma
• curprev 14:5614:56, 15 October 2022‎ Xayiver talk contribs‎ m 40,861 bytes +1‎ →‎Search for a package that contains a specific file: add a comma
• curprev 14:5414:54, 15 October 2022‎ Xayiver talk contribs‎ m 40,860 bytes +1‎ →‎Database structure: add a comma
• curprev 14:5214:52, 15 October 2022‎ Xayiver talk contribs‎ m 40,859 bytes +1‎ →‎Installing specific packages: add a comma