2007/2/5, Vladimir Koshelenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > В сообщении от 2 февраля 2007 Richard Maxwell Underwood написал(a): > > > How likely is it that sending ^C to a pacman -S will if done often enough > > mess up some database or file critical to pacman? > > Always do 'pacman -Sw' - it only downloads packages into cache. If you > interrupt, you always can continue later. After this, you can do 'pacman -S' > and install packages from cache.
That's not necessary. I often interrupt pacman -Su during download process and on next -Su it continues downloading. > If you kill pacman after download, in process of installation - consequences > may be any. For example, if 'pacman -Su' decided to replace 'j2re' > with 'jre', deleted 'j2re' and you kill it, it will not install 'jre' > automatically after second 'pacman -Su'. Another example - it can leave you > files corrupted, and if you extremelly unlusky, you hang up and cannot boot > after reset. Yes, that's true. The only solution for this is to not interrupt it after downloading ended, why would anyone need that? -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич) _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
