diff --git a/ports/ffmpeg/CONTROL b/ports/ffmpeg/CONTROL
index 2eef0576ff..2b85582d50 100644
--- a/ports/ffmpeg/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/ffmpeg/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: ffmpeg
-Version: 4.2-9
+Version: 4.2-10
 Build-Depends: zlib
 Homepage: https://ffmpeg.org
 Description: a library to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created.
diff --git a/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_acquire_msys.cmake b/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_acquire_msys.cmake
index 99b2d0aea1..8fa6a6d662 100644
--- a/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_acquire_msys.cmake
+++ b/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_acquire_msys.cmake
@@ -91,64 +91,13 @@ function(vcpkg_acquire_msys PATH_TO_ROOT_OUT)
       COMMAND ${PATH_TO_ROOT}/usr/bin/bash.exe --noprofile --norc -c "PATH=/usr/bin;pacman-key --init;pacman-key --populate"
       WORKING_DIRECTORY ${TOOLPATH}
     )
-
-    # workaround for https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/1962
-    # update the package manager manually
-    if(_vam_HOST_ARCHITECTURE STREQUAL "AMD64")
-      set(ARCHIVE_LIBZSTD "libzstd-1.4.4-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz")
-      set(HASH_LIBZSTD 7f8d93f8340be8fc2ed9aa60b78bd5b05b954ca6f081d475ccd14dda088c5b1c992a4e7c0c0575877d021edf7f2f55545f21a77212cad244c78866b73f7d2a0c)
-      set(ARCHIVE_ZSTD "zstd-1.4.4-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz")
-      set(HASH_ZSTD 2be7e243d4e600d092aa6a630d24cfc536a6c06a4fa8e0909b0364569d2f938e24f220de1f52edbc36adc7c69ca23a2a730675f2da82c1530d3d91136089d3e2)
-      set(ARCHIVE_PACMAN "pacman-5.2.1-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz")
-      set(HASH_PACMAN d52a1352af7e4cd020fe4083390f48d1c1976a8c8dcb12611de9bbdd7dd07d71f2e32b107d4daef29ff09d8344f545aed239544824225e282f309438178e123e)
-      set(URL_ARCH x86_64)
-    else()
-      set(ARCHIVE_LIBZSTD "libzstd-1.4.4-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz")
-      set(HASH_LIBZSTD 5c8c3a259a3ede68a389a782ec6db76e942e90c8ee00b81417e09bb3d604564ce7a28c6d575be786a8cd2e931d2549fe9db7f238a9fbfff159542ec35d42774b)
-      set(ARCHIVE_ZSTD "zstd-1.4.4-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz")
-      set(HASH_ZSTD c806d78cfd5c9c4c37b82748b98397bb79413f8525fb6c7af35879b947afe3ea4d06e67902b6abe2386052352abe2db2f889f41b42a5c6913d723d0f316dcc41)
-      set(ARCHIVE_PACMAN "pacman-5.2.1-6-i686.pkg.tar.xz")
-      set(HASH_PACMAN 9f22bc4d2c62f6d823fd2b24ba872d37a6a69a87608f63f9217e8e5f1ce37331e0a795ed6ce7793615f0e240b3ab6359e45259f3a548bd357a27f7f5d0b0a5b4)
-      set(URL_ARCH i686)
-    endif()
-    vcpkg_download_distfile(ARCHIVE_LIBZSTD_PATH
-        URLS "https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MSYS2/${URL_ARCH}/${ARCHIVE_LIBZSTD}/download"
-             "http://repo.msys2.org/msys/${URL_ARCH}/${ARCHIVE_LIBZSTD}"
-        FILENAME ${ARCHIVE_LIBZSTD}
-        SHA512 ${HASH_LIBZSTD}
-    )
-    vcpkg_download_distfile(ARCHIVE_ZSTD_PATH
-        URLS "https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MSYS2/${URL_ARCH}/${ARCHIVE_ZSTD}/download"
-             "http://repo.msys2.org/msys/${URL_ARCH}/${ARCHIVE_ZSTD}"
-        FILENAME ${ARCHIVE_ZSTD}
-        SHA512 ${HASH_ZSTD}
-    )
-    vcpkg_download_distfile(ARCHIVE_PACMAN_PATH
-        URLS "https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MSYS2/${URL_ARCH}/${ARCHIVE_PACMAN}/download"
-             "http://repo.msys2.org/msys/${URL_ARCH}/${ARCHIVE_PACMAN}"
-        FILENAME ${ARCHIVE_PACMAN}
-        SHA512 ${HASH_PACMAN}
-    )
-    _execute_process(
-      COMMAND ${PATH_TO_ROOT}/usr/bin/bash.exe --noprofile --norc -c "PATH=/usr/bin;pacman --noconfirm -U ${ARCHIVE_LIBZSTD_PATH}"
-      WORKING_DIRECTORY ${TOOLPATH}
-    )
-    _execute_process(
-      COMMAND ${PATH_TO_ROOT}/usr/bin/bash.exe --noprofile --norc -c "PATH=/usr/bin;pacman --noconfirm -U ${ARCHIVE_ZSTD_PATH}"
-      WORKING_DIRECTORY ${TOOLPATH}
-    )
-    _execute_process(
-      COMMAND ${PATH_TO_ROOT}/usr/bin/bash.exe --noprofile --norc -c "PATH=/usr/bin;pacman --noconfirm -U ${ARCHIVE_PACMAN_PATH}"
-      WORKING_DIRECTORY ${TOOLPATH}
-    )
-    # we have to kill all GnuPG daemons otherwise they will interfere with the
-    # subsequent package installs and updates
+    # we have to kill all GnuPG daemons otherwise bash would potentially not be
+    # able to start after the core system upgrade, additionally vcpkg would
+    # likely hang waiting for spawned processes to exit
     _execute_process(
       COMMAND ${PATH_TO_ROOT}/usr/bin/bash.exe --noprofile --norc -c "PATH=/usr/bin;gpgconf --homedir /etc/pacman.d/gnupg --kill all"
       WORKING_DIRECTORY ${TOOLPATH}
     )
-    # end workaround
-
     _execute_process(
       COMMAND ${PATH_TO_ROOT}/usr/bin/bash.exe --noprofile --norc -c "PATH=/usr/bin;pacman -Syu --noconfirm"
       WORKING_DIRECTORY ${TOOLPATH}
@@ -165,7 +114,7 @@ function(vcpkg_acquire_msys PATH_TO_ROOT_OUT)
     set(ENV{PATH} ${PATH_TO_ROOT}/usr/bin)
     vcpkg_execute_required_process(
       ALLOW_IN_DOWNLOAD_MODE
-      COMMAND ${PATH_TO_ROOT}/usr/bin/bash.exe --noprofile --norc -c "pacman -Sy --noconfirm --needed ${_am_PACKAGES}"
+      COMMAND ${PATH_TO_ROOT}/usr/bin/bash.exe --noprofile --norc -c "pacman -S --noconfirm --needed ${_am_PACKAGES}"
       WORKING_DIRECTORY ${TOOLPATH}
       LOGNAME msys-pacman-${TARGET_TRIPLET}
     )
@@ -174,14 +123,5 @@ function(vcpkg_acquire_msys PATH_TO_ROOT_OUT)
     message(STATUS "Acquiring MSYS Packages... OK")
   endif()
 
-  # Deal with a stale process created by MSYS
-  if (NOT VCPKG_CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME OR VCPKG_CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME STREQUAL "WindowsStore")
-      vcpkg_execute_required_process(
-          ALLOW_IN_DOWNLOAD_MODE
-          COMMAND TASKKILL /F /IM gpg-agent.exe /fi "memusage gt 2"
-          WORKING_DIRECTORY ${TOOLPATH}
-      )
-  endif()
-
   set(${PATH_TO_ROOT_OUT} ${PATH_TO_ROOT} PARENT_SCOPE)
 endfunction()