Latest revision as of 17:10, 11 May 2024

The painful parts of arch are mostly related to libraries:

python updates take a while to reach all packages (so they get installed to the wrong site-packages)
libva updates may be too new for makemkv etc
qt updates are sometimes problematic as well

To mitigate this, I've been exposing old versions of the libraries to my package-repo

Python Upgrades

See pacman troubleshooting.
TL;DR rebuild all python AUR packages, and reinstall.

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 = Python Upgrades =
 <blockquote>
-== Failures ==
+See [[pacman troubleshooting]].
-<blockquote>
-{{ expand
-| Install python-old alongside python-new
-|
-The problem is that most of the dependencies will have been already moved over to the new python version.
+TL;DR rebuild all python AUR packages, and reinstall.
-<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
-# EXPLANATION:
-    # list installed python3.11 packages
-    packages=$(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.11)
-    # list executables for these python packages
-    executables=$(for f in $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.11); do; pacman -Ql $f; done | grep -E '/bin/.')
-# replace shebang with python3.11 for all python3.11 packages
-for x in $(for f in $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.11 | grep -v python311); do; pacman -Ql $f; done | grep -E '/bin/.' | awk '{ print $2 }') ; do; sudo sed -i 's^#!/usr/bin/python^#!/usr/bin/python3.11^' "$x" ; done
-</syntaxhighlight>
-}}
-</blockquote><!-- Failures -->
 </blockquote><!-- Python Upgrades -->