Re: [arch-general] ibus has been out-of-date for over a month

2020-11-04 Thread Alex Henrie via arch-general
On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 12:02 AM Felix Yan wrote: > > ibus 1.5.23+1+gdd4cc5b0-1 has been pushed into [testing]. Sorry for the > delay. Excellent, thank you! I just installed ibus 1.5.23 from [testing] and it is working great. -Alex

Re: [arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
Eli, > The files should definitely be owned, though... I suspect your issue > is due to upgrading the pacman version, resulting in some files that > could not be deleted due to not existing, but were not part of the new > package and therefore did not exist afterward either. thanks. in theory

Re: [arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
Yash, i (according to the pacman log) explicitly installed npm-check-updates. (i've just now removed it; i think i installed it when i was initially flailing around, trying to understand the npm-verse.) in terms of arch packages, the arch package page

Re: [arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 11/4/20 1:03 PM, Greg Minshall via arch-general wrote: > this is just a status update, mostly for anyone in the future who might > find this useful for their problem. but, if anyone in the near-present > has any comment, i'm happy. (and, i appreciate all the help up to now!) > > presumably

Re: [arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Yash Karandikar via arch-general
On 11/4/20 12:03 PM, Greg Minshall via arch-general wrote: > (145/192) upgrading npm-check-updates > Did you explicitly install npm-check-updates or was it a dependency of something else? > > .../rc/package.json shows a dependency on minimist. Looks like npm-check-updates depends on

Re: [arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
this is just a status update, mostly for anyone in the future who might find this useful for their problem. but, if anyone in the near-present has any comment, i'm happy. (and, i appreciate all the help up to now!) presumably this is all fallout from some historic "npm update -g". way too many

Re: [arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
thanks, Nick and Maarten. i guess all paths include some trepidation on my part. Nick -- i think it's a good assumption i *did* do some sort of "npm ... -g" action. i've often wondered how distributions (arch and others) deal with users of R, (now) npm, etc., doing a system-wide install of

Re: [arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 at 15:17, Nick Shvelidze via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > I think running `pacman -Syu --overwrite '/usr/lib/node_modules/*'` is > safe. > I have no idea how those files would end up there without using `sudo > npm install -g` > It would be good to also

Re: [arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Nick Shvelidze via arch-general
I think running `pacman -Syu --overwrite '/usr/lib/node_modules/*'` is safe. I have no idea how those files would end up there without using `sudo npm install -g` On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 11:56 AM Greg Minshall via arch-general wrote: > > hi. [hope all are well, etc.] > > i use the npm package

Re: [arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
hi, Toni, thanks for the question. actually, i don't know, but if i bothered to sudo, it would have been to do -g (global). do you know (maybe it's a stupid, "well, duh!", question...) if, in that case, my system would become "un-pacman'able"? especially, in such as way as i've described.

Re: [arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread eye
Hi Greg > first off, i wonder if anyone has ideas of how i ended up in this > situation? i know that occasionally npm will exclaim, with enthusiasm, > that a new, updated version, is available, and offer me a chance to > update it. normally i don't run as root. but, if i had, in the past, >

[arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
hi. [hope all are well, etc.] i use the npm package (for managing javascript packages). today i tried "pacman -Syu", and i got a number of errors about files under /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules that "exists in filesystem": (182/182) checking for file conflicts error: failed to