please go easy on me; i don’t know how these things work. an update came through for openrc. i type “pamac update -a” into the terminal. at the end of it all, i get this error;
”meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Unknown option: “os”.
A full log can be found at /var/tmp/pamac-build-coolguy2/openrc/src/openrc-0.63/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting…”
i checked the build files, and i don’t see any reference to anything “os”. so i don’t know how an option “os” shows up. unless this is something i can’t fix . i need help here how to fix this, if this is something that is fixable, or if its something i have to wait for.
if there is something else needed here, please let me know. i’ll do my best to supply what is needed. its either fixing this , or opting to ignore updates for this package, which i don’t think its good to ignore. - thank you
Looking at that meson.build file, it is a function to determine, for what architecture and system the program is going to be built.
It looks for keywords like “linux”, “bsd”, GNU … but somehow it can’t figure out that the return it gets from Manjaro is … linux.
That is my interpretation of what I saw when I looked at that file.
… do you want to change/replace the init system on your machine from systemd to openrc?
(Just curious, I certainly cannot help with that.)
My thoughts exactly. Why on earth would someone try to force openrc in an arch distro…why? And to successfully do that, you will definitely need a level of knowledge that you currently do not have, if you post such topic in such a way.
There actually are a few Arch derivatives out there that do use openrc instead of systemd, and my guess — I can only speculate, of course — is that the OP was using such a distribution earlier, before switching (back) to Manjaro.
This I will also agree upon. “If you have to ask the question, then you don’t possess the knowledge yet to pull it off.”
i did not install openrc. it was installed as some dependency for a package. i came here for help. if i knew the answer to fixing this, i wouldn’t have made the post and this would have been unnecessary. but thank you for your thoughtful response
A little misunderstanding here: pacman will work on already installed packages from aur. It will not work on packages from aur that are not yet installed.
good question. i only know i didn’t install it. therefore i was stumped. but as long as it didn’t complain at uninstalling it? im ok with that. if it was a necessary dependency, it would have complained. we’re good to go here.
