Libguestfs - Aug 2014 - Re: issue when building/making package from git

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A couple of problems here.

Your perl binary segfaults:
> checking for Sys::Virt... ./configure: line 59541: 30146 Segmentation
> fault      $PERL -M$pm -e1 1>&5 2>&1
> no
---

supermin looks good ...
> supermin: writing supermin.d.xmx7q6hl/packages
> supermin: after resolving dependencies there are 99 packages:
... until you get to here and then everything goes wrong:
> :: Synchronizing package databases...
> error: failed to update core (unable to lock database)
> error: failed to update extra (unable to lock database)
> error: failed to update community (unable to lock database)
> error: failed to update multilib (unable to lock database)
> error: failed to synchronize any databases
> error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)
> error: could not lock database: Permission denied
So this is the primary problem you need to fix.

I suspect that you could fix this by running the following command as
before the build:

  sudo pacman -Sy

This is (sort of) a bug, but IIRC pacman just doesn't let us have a
local per-user copy of the package database so there's not much we can
do about it in supermin.

Rich.

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>
> I suspect that you could fix this by running the following command as
> before the build:
>
>   sudo pacman -Sy
I always sue -Syu to install packages, and I already
installed/reinstalled some packages today.

Now one thing comes to my mind : lots of pacman stuff are NOT in the usal place.

$ cat /etc/pacman.conf
-----------------------------------
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir     = /
DBPath       = /var/lib/pacman
CacheDir     = /drawer/pacman/pkg
#CacheDir     = /var/cache/pacman/pkg
#LogFile     = /var/log/pacman.log
#GPGDir      = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
HoldPkg      = pacman glibc
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -C - -f %u > %o
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
#UseDelta    = 0.7
Architecture = auto
------------------------------------------

Could this unusual dir be the cause of this issue ??