Douglas Teles 6ce926d537 pacman: install /var/lib/pacman as symlink, not dir + child symlink ...

User reported on a freshly flashed R36S:

    archr:~ # pacman
    error: failed to initialize alpm library:
    (root: /, dbpath: /var/lib/pacman/)
    could not find or read directory

The package.mk created /var/lib/pacman as a real directory in
post_makeinstall_target (mkdir -p), then in post_install ran
`ln -sf /storage/.pacman/db ${INSTALL}/var/lib/pacman`. When LINK is
an existing directory, ln -sf does not replace it — it creates
LINK/$(basename TARGET). So the installed image ended up with:

  /var/lib/pacman/                ← real, empty dir (rootfs, ro)
  /var/lib/pacman/db -> /storage/.pacman/db   ← child symlink

Pacman reads dbpath=/var/lib/pacman/ from pacman.conf, looks for
local/ and sync/ inside it, finds nothing, and bails.

Fix: install /var/lib/pacman directly as a symlink to
/storage/.pacman/db in one shot, no intermediate mkdir. Same for
/var/cache/pacman/pkg. Move both into post_makeinstall_target so the
file layout is decided in one place; post_install now only enables
the pacman-init service.

Runtime escape hatch on already-installed systems (since the rootfs
is squashfs-ro and can't be patched):

    mount --bind /storage/.pacman/db /var/lib/pacman
    mount --bind /storage/.pacman/cache /var/cache/pacman/pkg

This commit fixes the build so the next image flashes correctly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-06-24 01:30:02 -03:00

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ArchR

pacman: install /var/lib/pacman as symlink, not dir + child symlink

2026-06-24 01:30:02 -03:00

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