Linux @lemmy.ml federino @programming.dev 2 days ago

Pacman v7.0.0 released

gitlab.archlinux.org v7.0.0 · Pacman / Pacman · GitLab

7.0.0 - Add DownloadUser configuation option used to drop-privileges when downloading files.

Arch Linux @lemmy.ml federino @programming.dev 2 days ago

gitlab.archlinux.org /pacman/pacman/-/releases/v7.0.0

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Damn, that game's still going, eh? (/j)
- Originally it was called puckman, but they changed it because it would have been too easy to vandalize people's arch installations
  
  You win!
- going full open source 😎
- pacman is my favorite game on Arch.
The moment I installed it, yay broke. To fix it, if any of you need this: do an ln -s to the .so that is being requested. This allows yay to work again. Use yay to upgrade yay. Finally remove the symbolic link.
- Can you do makepkg in the clone of yay PKGBUILD from aur? That seems like a better solution than symlinking...
  
  I did this. And it worked like a charm
  
  This is the correct thing to do when it breaks, recompile and link against the new libs. Otherwise you could see funny behaviour.
This is exciting! Can't wait to kill my install by trying to upgrade!
- I mean you don't really use Arch if you don't bork it once in a while. :)
  
  That’s a very pleasant word for a horrible experience I keep doing to myself.
  
  NVidia borks my installation sometimes. Then my stupidity to choose the non-dkms beta driver from the AUR. But all in all, my non-NVidia-devices (server, workstation and laptop) run fine on arch testing, updated every time I use one of those devices.
- You can run pacman on Windows?
  
  It’s called Ms. PacMan over there
  
  yes (msys2) except it will never bork your windows install unlike on arch.
  
  Kinda. One of the Linux "wrappers" (I'm a bit tired and can't think of the correct term here, bear with me) that lets you utilize some Linux utilities on Windows, maybe it was mingw or cygwin, actually uses pacman as their package manager IIRC.
- If anything, i would expect packagekit frontends to break. If you use pacman as intended, you’ll be just fine
On Linux systems, ensure the download process does not write outside the download directory

What does that mean "On Linux systems"? Pacman is available for non Linux systems?
- Pacman was birthed from the Arch ecosystem, but it's built to be generalized so any project can use it if they choose.
  
  arch = base.tarball[0] + pacman [0] 90% similar to all other linux tarballs
- The MSYS2 environment on Windows uses pacman as well.

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