Manually Install Pacman Binaries #50
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Was able to get it to work by downloading the binary pacman package & manually installing all its contents to Git/MSYS environment. Then doing the steps above (Note: /usr/share/pacman/keyrings had to be copied from another MSYS2 environment): Initialize keyring: Reload the default keys from /usr/share/pacman/keyrings: Update keys from a keyserver: Force update packages: Now pacman works correctly. But need to use --force parameter to overwrite package files previously installed by Git installer. To make sure correct packages are re-installed, do the following (credit to Mefju in this thread post): |
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Thanks @AntumDeluge for your steps! I just used them to install pacman in my Another different thing I did was to download the I also suggested to them to ship This is the script/steps I used for the GitHub Actions: jobs:
test:
runs-on: windows-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Configure environment variables
run: |
echo "::set-env name=pacmanbin::pacman-5.1.1-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz"
echo "::set-env name=pacmanmirror::pacman-mirrors-20200307-1-any.pkg.tar.xz"
echo "::set-env name=pacmankeys::msys2-keyring-r9.397a52e-1-any.pkg.tar.xz"
- name: Set up pacman, rsync, rename
shell: cmd
run: |
echo on
curl -LO http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/%pacmanbin%
curl -LO http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/%pacmanmirror%
curl -LO http://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/%pacmankeys%
:: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1359793/programmatically-extract-tar-gz
7z x "%pacmanbin%" -so | 7z x -aoa -si -ttar -o"%programfiles%\Git"
7z x "%pacmanmirror%" -so | 7z x -aoa -si -ttar -o"%programfiles%\Git"
7z x "%pacmankeys%" -so | 7z x -aoa -si -ttar -o"%programfiles%\Git"
set "PATH=%programfiles%\Git\usr\bin"
bash pacman-key --init
bash pacman-key --populate msys2
bash pacman-key --refresh-keys
pacman -Tv
pacman -Syuv --overwrite='*'
:: We must install bash first, otherwise we will have bash fork errors:
:: https://github.com/evandroforks/anki/runs/524857054?check_suite_focus=true
:: 0 [main] pacman 748 dofork: child -1 - forked process 2896 died unexpectedly
pacman --version
pacman -Sv --noconfirm --overwrite='*' bash
pacman -Sv --noconfirm --overwrite='*' rsync
pacman -Sv --noconfirm --overwrite='*' util-linux
:: clean all packages to decrease image size
pacman -Sccv --noconfirm Here are the relevant log results from a clean/working installation https://github.com/evandroforks/anki/runs/524866924?check_suite_focus=true#step:5:199
UpdateAfter seeing (actions/runner-images#585 - Install MSYS2 to Windows), now I am using Update 2021-10-22It seems that now pacman uses the format zst:
Fix the error
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I'm sorry that this may not be directly related to the MSYS2 project. But I'm hoping I can get some insight here since I am working with an MSYS/MinGW environment.
I have installed Git for Windows on Windows 10 64-bit, & I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to use pacman from MSYS2 project with it. Turns out, Git for Windows comes with a MinGW/MSYS environment, but no package manager. I'd prefer to only have one MSYS environment on my system. If worse comes worst, I'll just uninstall Git for Windows & create a regular MSYS2 environment. But if I can, I'd like the try & use pacman with my current Git/MinGW/MSYS environment.
I downloaded the latest 64-bit MSYS2 tarball package & extracted its contents. I've copied the /usr/bin/pacman.exe executable, /var & /etc/pacman.d directories, & /etc/pacman.conf file to the Git/MSYS environment.
I turned off my firewall & opened the MinTTY/Bash terminal that came with Git using administrative privileges. I ran pacman & got some complaints. I don't remember what the original complaints were, but I ended up doing the following to try & add the MSYS2 public PGP key as trusted:
Not sure how to get it to accept the key. Something is missing or not set up right. I may ask for help over at the Git project as well.
EDIT: It was suggested to me to use pacman-key for adding the public key because pacman uses its own keyring. So, I did the following but am still getting the same error:
EDIT: Found a little more info here. I deleted /etc/pacman.d/gnupg & copied /usr/share/pacman directory from extracted MSYS2 package to Git/MSYS environment, then ran the following:
Error persists, but now all keys for MSYS2 are added to keyring:
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