thanks, all! i believe i'll now be able to recover. now i've set up to
use CacheDir.
(/home is a separate partition on my hard drive; /home/minshall is where
i live, but, having initially configured with a too-small root, and
being nervous/lazy to "resize in place", /home now also is "home" to
On Sun, 7 Jun 2020, 21:13 Greg Minshall, wrote:
> i should mention that i seem to have the correct pacman "distribution"
> file:
>
> bash apollo2 (master): {1198} ls -l /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-5.2.1-*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 856820 Apr 30 03:23
>
> hi. a month ago i ran out of room on my root file system, so relocated
> /var/cache/pacman to /home, and left behind a symlink. (…)
“/var/cache/pacman” is owned by pacman and is supposed to be a
directory. If you have removed the directory and create a symlink
instead, the next update has
On 6/7/20 9:09 PM, Greg Minshall wrote:
> hi. a month ago i ran out of room on my root file system, so relocated
> /var/cache/pacman to /home, and left behind a symlink.
>
> today, after a while, i did a 'pacman -Syu', which downloaded lots, and
> ran through a lot new keys, upgrading, etc.,
On Sun, 07 Jun 2020 18:09:12 -0700
Greg Minshall wrote:
> hi. a month ago i ran out of room on my root file system, so relocated
> /var/cache/pacman to /home, and left behind a symlink.
>
> today, after a while, i did a 'pacman -Syu', which downloaded lots, and
> ran through a lot new keys,
i should mention that i seem to have the correct pacman "distribution"
file:
bash apollo2 (master): {1198} ls -l /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-5.2.1-*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 856820 Apr 30 03:23
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-5.2.1-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 857872 May 23 03:04
hi. a month ago i ran out of room on my root file system, so relocated
/var/cache/pacman to /home, and left behind a symlink.
today, after a while, i did a 'pacman -Syu', which downloaded lots, and
ran through a lot new keys, upgrading, etc., then failed (see below),
and (the symbolic link at)
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