Making Pacman find installed packages

Hi, I have recently built a LinuxFromScratch system.
When I finished, I looked at installing package managers, and eventually settled on pacman.
Everything built OK, updated with -Syu fine.
However when I go to install a package with pacman -S package, it tries to download all the necessary packages like linux-api-headers, glibc, bash, etc.
All the basic system packages I have already installed...
The install then fails because these packages already exist.
linux-api-headers: /usr/include/asm-generic/auxvec.h exists in filesystem
there is around 6000 lines of that.
Is there any way I can make pacman recognise these packages as installed?
Last edited by Wigguno (2010-11-29 02:51:11)

I think you are doing it wrong....
If you want to run LFS using pacman, you need to create the relevant packages yourself and then install them using pacman. The first time will require you to "force" the installation of your packages over the LFS ones unless you prepare the package management back when you first enter your LFS chroot. It can be done but is not entirely simple.
What you appear to be doing is grabbing packages from the Arch repos to install on your LFS system. That is a really, really bad idea. You either create your own (LFS) packages or install Arch, Mixing is bad...
I highly recommend the "symlink" style package management system for LFS. There are also scripts floating around that help you manage the symlinks so you can have the feeling of a package manager without really having one. But I think you will soon find that maintaining a LFS system is not all it is cracked up to be and LFS is really just a learning tool.
As an aside, Arch started as a LFS system and we tend to follow the fairly simple base setup that is used there.

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I have a lot more installed in my system, eg. the holl KDE system.
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Last edited by estevao (2011-02-11 17:29:52)

Spider.007 wrote:
Leonid.I wrote:
mcmillan wrote:You probably can do some searching to track it down (or rewrite something similar if you know how) prior to going through with a complete reinstall.
... which (complete reinstall) will be required with high probability, since all the solutions proposed above will most likely break the system
Arch Linux is more than just GNU/Linux -- it's an adventure
I think your signature is either too sarcastic, or too much in contrast with what you are posting here. A damaged database is really no big deal, and the only things that the proposed solutions attempt to do is that pacman re-installs a package (which changes close to nothing in your actual installation) and then write that update to its database.
I do not agree with your statement that the probability of a required reinstall are high. Actually, I would say they are pretty low
There is nothing sarcastic about my sig. Indeed, what would be the fun of using a system, which never breaks?
Regarding the probability of a reinstall either my opinion, or yours is irrelevant for the topic of this discussion.
Finally, I would like to draw your attention to the little thingie in the end of my post: ":)" . It's called smiley and was put there for a reason, you know...

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Worked, thank you!

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