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Based on the Arch distribution, Parabola is a complete, user-friendly operating system, suitable for general "everyday" use, while retaining Arch's "power-user" charm. Parabola adheres to the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines (FSDG); which requires source code for every part of the system to be freely available, modifyable, and re-distributable. All Parabola packages are built from source, in clean chroots, and with networking disabled, in order to replace any software and artworks in the standard Arch system which fall outside the GNU guidelines. LiveISOs, installers, and packages are provided for the armv7h, i686, and x86_64 CPU architectures.
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Starting with libxcrypt 4.4.21, weak password hashes (such as MD5 and SHA1) are no longer accepted for new passwords. Users that still have their passwords stored with a weak hash will be asked to update their password on their next login.
If the login just fails (for example from display manager) switch to a virtual terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and log in there once.
plasma-workspace-5.20.1.1-1.1 cannot be installed with:
...
plasma-workspace: /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/kfontinst.mo exists in filesystem (owned by plasma-desktop)
plasma-workspace: /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/krdb.mo exists in filesystem (owned by plasma-desktop)
plasma-workspace: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.kde.fontinst.policy exists in filesystem (owned by plasma-desktop)
use this to overwrite those duplicate files:
pacman -Sy --overwrite='*' plasma-workspace
The libtraceevent package prior to version 5.9-1 was missing a soname link. This has been fixed in 5.9-1, so the upgrade will need to overwrite the untracked files created by ldconfig. If you get any of these errors
libtraceevent: /usr/lib/libtraceevent.so.1 exists in filesystem
when updating, use
pacman -Syu --overwrite /usr/lib/libtraceevent.so.1
to perform the upgrade.
The ghostpcl and ghostxps packages prior to version 9.53.2-2 were missing a soname link each. This has been fixed in 9.53.2-2, so the upgrade will need to overwrite the untracked files created by ldconfig. If you get any of these errors
ghostpcl: /usr/lib/libgpcl6.so.9 exists in filesystem
ghostxps: /usr/lib/libgxps.so.9 exists in filesystem
when updating, use
pacman -Syu --overwrite /usr/lib/libgpcl6.so.9,/usr/lib/libgxps.so.9
to perform the upgrade.
a change was made this week to 'nonsystemd/base', in order to reduce dependency conflicts, when installing a nonsystemd system, and when migrating to or from nonsystemd<->systemd - this has exposed several dependency conflicts which were not obvious before, and made them explicit
manual intervention will be required, if pacman has a conflict such as:
your-initfreedom and systemd-_ANYTHING_ are in conflict
if you get that error, see this redmine issue for the solution:
https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/2884
there is a separate, but related issue, where we are collecting examples of conflicts which were exposed by this change to ...
| etl 1.4.2-1 | armv7h/x86_64 |
| glusterfs 1:9.3-1 | armv7h/x86_64 |
| man-pages-zh 1.6.3.5-1 | x86_64 |
| powerdns-recursor 4.5.5-1 | x86_64 |
| libretro-ppsspp 30123-1 | armv7h/x86_64 |
| libretro-yabause 3314-1 | x86_64 |
| nodejs 16.6.0-1 | x86_64 |
| pcsx2 1.7.0.r1555.3eda42075-1 | x86_64 |
| python-praw 7.4.0-1 | x86_64 |
| keycloak 15.0.0-1 | x86_64 |
| cargo-watch 8.0.0-1 | x86_64 |
| glewlwyd 2.5.3-1 | armv7h/x86_64 |
| python-jeepney 0.7.1-1 | x86_64 |
| opensubdiv 3.4.4-4 | x86_64 |
| libretro-play 6632-1 | armv7h/x86_64 |
