eilenbeb
Heya. Ran into some probs installing a new system. Turns out the mirrors were out of sync and the libffi package was the wrong version.
The whole root/boot/whatever trees were bork'd. Couldn't get the new install to boot.
The error was mostly silent, I had to go digging (thru a chroot) to find it. I understand the changes to libffi have been problematic for more than just obarun, but it would have been useful if the install script had halted instead of continuing.
Just a thought.
laters,
b
banned_9-26-2021
Were you using obarun-install from another installation or from the live image 032020?
The live system needs to have the repository correction (look at news item) due to the signature expiring. From a real installation that is current and new keyring is installed there shouldn't be a problem.
eilenbeb
Obarun-2020.03.01-x6_64.iso.
Thanks, I'm caught up with the keyring thing. My problem was out-of-sync mirrors giving me libffi version 6. Obarun-install wanted version 7.
eilenbeb
I guess running rankmirrors is a must
EDIT--- I totally ignored your first question, my bad. I put the iso on a usb drive and booted from it.
EDIT--- Yeah, I caught the news, that was all ok. libffi comes from Archlinux [core] so it was an arch repo issue.
Thanks for the reply. I was just thinking that (obarun is based on a rolling distro) the installer should be a bit more error-sensitive. I had to go digging to find the prob; I would've been nicer with an ERROR: continue?(y/n)
Anyways, just making a suggestion. And a post in case anyone searches.
banned_9-26-2021
This is strange, the current libffi came out in April, the previous one is from Nov 2019.
The iso comes in between, but whatever is on the iso doesn't affect installation.
Maybe JM or Eric can throw some light into this, why would it happen. Unless there is a bad mirror that hasn't synced since March and has been deleted in the current arch mirrorlist.
eric
Bad mirrors behavior (actually some mirrors install an old glibc version). Generally speaking, a mirror is synchronized one time per day.
@ eilenbeb
The installer cannot handle this kind of error. Imagine if you set your own repo which old version. And be interactive for each packages could be a tedious task mostly for lambda user.
As far as know, archlinux do not have an official repo. This is a pity, because having it will resolve all this kind of stuff.
eilenbeb
Heya. late response. I hear ya both. I will simply have to be more careful in the future.
Busy elsewhere, laters
b