Pacman 7.0 released

General system Pacman & AUR helpers
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Did you check the Arch news?

$ chown :alpm -R /path/to/local/repo

https://archlinux.org/news/manual-intervention-for-pacman-700-and-local-repositories-required/

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Yes, I did, that does not help.

Edit:

I fixed the issue by disabling a new feature DownloadUser = alpm or changing it to a user dependent permission.

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I would not advice to roll back pacman. Especially if you already have done something with the new version. You basically roll back the package that manages your system, which has the potential to do a lot of harm.

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Yeah, this is not for beginners who donā€™t know what theyā€™re doing.

In my case, I didnā€™t rollback only Pacman. I used Limine booting into an immutable old system with overlayfs and checked a partial update and old Pacman 6 to identify the issue. It was just a temporary, quick test for a short time without restoring.
Iā€™m now back to the current system, so no need to worry about me. :wink:

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How can you boot into the immutable system using Limine? Is that possible to restore from there?

Iā€™m currently using GRUB which helps me to restore BTRFS snapshots.

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This is what I do also.

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If there is a update to pacman itself, remain calm and rebuild anything that relies on it. Now your chosen AUR helper is not going to work so do the right thing and rebuild it. Download snapshot extract it and then use makepkg -si to rebuild it.

The same will apply to any other application that uses pacman libraries. For example pacdepā€¦

Please no downgrading or linking stuff, bad things will happen!!!

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Off topic: This is unrelated to the OPā€™s discussion about Pacman.

Here:

Yes, of course.

If you are happy with grub, you can stick with it.

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They do simply love to panic on these things !
What is a better chance to break your install?

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Hey everyone, since they (Arch) recommend merging the pacman.conf.pacnew file, Iā€™ve noticed some changes in the new file that Iā€™m assuming are not a good idea to merge for EndeavourOS, so just wanted to double check here.

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Iā€™m assuming things from the screenshots above should not be disabled.

As for the +DownloadUser = alpm, no sure if this affects Endeavour somehow, but assuming it doesnā€™t.

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Hi, please take a look in that thread

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Endeavoros repo is important for endeavoros things :wink:

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Yeah, that made sense, I was mostly unsure for the HoldPkg part :smile:

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Ok, you got it now?
Fine then :+1:

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Yeah, Iā€™ve merged them successfully, thanks for the link

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Perfect. Youā€™re welcome !