<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for the tip, Steve!<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Steve Litt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com" target="_blank">slitt@troubleshooters.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 13:32:20 +0200<br>
Shlomi Fish <<a href="mailto:shlomif@gmail.com">shlomif@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
<br>
> Sorry for being unclear, but by "unusable state" I meant that one can<br>
> no longer upgrade the system it using "pacman -Syu" (or whatever the<br>
> command is) because it gives errors. The system itself works fine but<br>
> will run outdated software applications (and often ones with known<br>
> security vulnerabilities).<br>
<br>
</span>I've had this happen several times with Manjaro (and therefore I assume<br>
it would happen with Arch also). All the cases of which I'm aware are<br>
solveable like this:<br>
<br>
pacman -Syu --ignore badpkgname<br>
<br>
The preceding allows the rest of your upgrade to go through. Report the<br>
problem, and in the near future the bad program will be fixed and you<br>
can upgrade the formerly bad package.<br>
<br>
It's really unfortunate that, without --ignore, pacman sees fit to go<br>
through the entire the entire upgrade, perhaps a half hour, and then<br>
tell you there's one bad package and upgrade nothing. Fortunately, in<br>
the time I spent with Manjaro, I saw only two or three cases in which a<br>
package refused to install and took the whole pacman -Syu with it.<br>
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