Ran a sync yesterday - and noted that pacman was updated - a bunch of Archlinux patches applied
source=(https://sources.archlinux.org/other/pacman/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.xz{,.sig}
pacman-always-create-directories-from-debugedit.patch::https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/efd0c24c07b86be014a4edb5a8ece021b87e3900.patch
pacman-always-create-directories-from-debugedit-fixup.patch::https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/86981383a2f4380bda26311831be94cdc743649b.patch
pacman-fix-unique-source-paths.patch::https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/478af273dfe24ded197ec54ae977ddc3719d74a0.patch
pacman-strip-include-o-files-similar-to-kernel-modules.patch::https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/de11824527ec4e2561e161ac40a5714ec943543c.patch
pacman-fix-compatibility-with-bash-5.2-patsub_replacement.patch::https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/0e938f188692c710be36f9dd9ea7b94381aed1b4.patch
pacman-fix-order-of-fakechroot-fakeroot-nesting.patch::https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/05f283b5ad8f5b8f995076e93a27c8772076f872.patch
pacman-change-default-checksum-from-md5-to-sha256.patch::https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/aa3a1bc3b50d797fb75278f79a83cd7dde50c66e.patch
pacman-sort-debuginfod-repro.patch::https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/843bf21e794c79c5b3bcf8a57e45ef9c62312fee.patch
pacman-split-off-strip-debug.patch::https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/7a4fff3310ba2eadd3d5428cbb92e58eb2ee853b.patch
pacman-ignore-a-files.patch::https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/00d2b1f90261bf77eaaf262d2504af016562f2ac.patch
pacman-early-err-git.patch::https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/3aa096a74f717d31650e0eb3cf34e9a5ebadc313.patch
pacman-fix-gnupg-binary-data.patch::https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/86ec26b2d33372a4b3bda48f22c4a9f226c3ccce.patch
pacman-fix-gnupg-newsig-check.patch::https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/16a064701a30d7e1175e1185cc6da44238302fab.patch
pacman-check-pipes-gnupg.patch::https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/f8c2e59ec57c86827b1f1b1c2f6760dc3e59fe40.patch
pacman.conf
makepkg.conf
pacman-sync-first-option.patch)
This sync removed my pacman keyring.
I noticed only this morning as I was installing python-opengl and my sublimetext repo threw key errors.
It turned out the entire pacman keyring was missing - the error message is keyring not writeable doh - it was gone.
pacman-key init
followed by
pacman-key --populate ...
What went wrong ?
@cscs that was really nuclear - but necessary - what did she say? nuke it from orbit is the only way to be sure …
I think this patch is part of the reason