Arch Linux - News: linux-firmware >= 20250613.12fe085f-5 upgrade requires manual intervention

2025-06-21 - Jan Alexander Steffens
With 20250613.12fe085f-5, we split our firmware into several vendor-focused packages. linux-firmware is now an empty package depending on our default set of firmware.
Unfortunately, this coincided with upstream reorganizing the symlink layout of the NVIDIA firmware, resulting in a situation that Pacman cannot handle. When attempting to upgrade from 20250508.788aadc8-2 or earlier, you will see the following errors:
To progress with the system upgrade, first remove linux-firmware, then reinstall it as part of the upgrade:
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