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rsambuca

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From: Calgary, Canada

Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 143

[SOLVED] Can't upgrade due to v4l-utils

Tried to update my system today, but it won't let me.

First, it wants to do this:

:: Replace libv4l with extra/v4l-utils? [Y/n] y

Unfortunately, it can not carry out this because:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
v4l-utils: /usr/bin/ivtv-ctl exists in filesystem
v4l-utils: /usr/bin/v4l2-ctl exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

If I try to remove libv4l itself, it won't let me and says:

:: gstreamer0.10-good-plugins: requires libv4l>=0.6.3
:: sane: requires libv4l

Anyone else having this problem upgrading today, and any ideas on how to fix this?

Last edited by rsambuca (2010-08-29 23:17:19)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't upgrade due to v4l-utils

'pacman -Sf v4l-utils' - it will force upgrade. Or you can remove those files by hand.

rsambuca

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From: Calgary, Canada

Registered: 2008-07-21

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't upgrade due to v4l-utils

If I force an upgrade, won't the gstreamer and sane be borked?

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't upgrade due to v4l-utils

If I force an upgrade, won't the gstreamer and sane be borked?

Why should they? You're updating the app, not removing it, so sane will be happy and v4l-utils 0.8.0-1 is >=0.6.3 so gstreamer shouldn't object.

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't upgrade due to v4l-utils

force only nobody owns those files. it might be a bug and we lost all the information.

proper way:
pacman -Qo /usr/bin/ivtv-ctl
pacman -Qo /usr/bin/v4l2-ctl

nothing owns them? pacman -Sf v4l-utils --asdeps
a package owns them? check to see if the package is from our repos and report it on our bugtracker, if the package is from aur, get rid of it

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mrunion

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't upgrade due to v4l-utils

I had that issue. Those files are owned by ivtv-utils if I recall. Remove that package, then the install should work fine.

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rsambuca

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From: Calgary, Canada

Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 143

Re: [SOLVED] Can't upgrade due to v4l-utils

Thanks for the help guys. 

Yes, like mrunion said the two files in question are owned  by ivtv-utils.  However, I believe I require that for my Hauppauge TV card, so I think I will leave everything for now.  Since ivtv-utils is in extra, I'll file a bug report and hopefully somebody that understands these things can fix it for us!

Edit:  Looks like someone else just filed a bug:  FS#20637

Last edited by rsambuca (2010-08-27 16:00:19)

rsambuca

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From: Calgary, Canada

Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 143

Re: [SOLVED] Can't upgrade due to v4l-utils

Thanks once again to the developers for their speedy fix!

mDuo13

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Registered: 2010-04-25

Posts: 94

Re: [SOLVED] Can't upgrade due to v4l-utils

I was having this same problem, but -Sf does not work:

[mduo13@trace ~]$ sudo pacman -S v4l-utils
error: 'v4l-utils': could not find or read package

Seems like it was a package synchronization problem; many of the mirrors I was using (unixheads.org, umflint.edu, vt.edu) seemed to be out of date, not having the [multilib] repository either. Using the following mirror is now working (and wow, there are 187 packages to install!):
http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64