On za, 2012-07-07 at 13:25 -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: > Hey all, > > Allan pushed glib 2.16-2 into [testing] which removes /lib as a > directory, replacing it with a symlink. A bit of advice... > > - In the simplest case, the upgrade can be done as simply as: > > pacman -Syu --ignore glibc && pacman -S glibc > > - Since nothing is ever simple, if the above still fails on installation > of glibc (with a somewhat cryptic "/lib exists" error), you'll need to > figure out what's still in /lib that doesn't belong to glibc. > Generally this will end up being modules/. pacman -Qo /lib/* will > pinpoint what needs fixing/removing. Deal with anything that isn't > owned explicitly by glibc and complete the installation. > > It shouldn't need to be said, but I'll mention it anyways: > > Do. Not. Use. (the) --force. Obi-wan approves of this.
I didn't need --force to fuck up my system. When I upgraded like above, I got file conflicts because of some depmod files in /lib/modules, combined with an old ancient udev-compat package. I removed udev-compat and the files, but there were still some empty directories in /lib. When running pacman -S glibc, pacman didn't detect any file conflicts, installed the new glibc, told me that it could not extract /lib and then left my system in a state that couldn't execute a single command anymore.
