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WishCow

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Registered: 2011-01-31

Posts: 57

[SOLVED] Pacman circular update problem

Hello, first time Arch user here.

I did a pacman -Syu yesterday, which updated the kernel to a new version. I have an ATI card, and I'm using the catalyst drivers from AUR,
which meant that I couldn't boot X today, because the fglrx module wasn't patched into the kernel.

I thought no problem, and brute-forced the problem with a reinstall of the catalyst driver. It turned out that catalyst has also been updated,
which had a dependency on catalyst-utils11, (I had catalyst-utils10) so I had to update that first.

When I tried to update catalyst-utils, it complained that I need catalyst11, (I had catalyst10). I cannot update either package, because it depends
on the other package updated first.

Reading the manual of makepkg, I discovered the -d (nodeps) option, which ignores missing dependencies, and done:

makepkg -d
cd ../catalyst11
makepkg -d
sudo pacman -U catalyst11 ../catalyst-utils/catalyst-utils11

Which solved the problem perfectly.

Now my question is, is there a better solution to handling this scenario, when two package depend on each other being updated, or doing makepkg -d is the correct way?

Last edited by WishCow (2011-01-31 09:14:30)

ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED] Pacman circular update problem

-d or -f both work, so yes, that's the 'correct' way in this situation where both have versioned dependencies on each other.

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ANOKNUSA

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Re: [SOLVED] Pacman circular update problem

You should also inform the maintainer of catalyst-utils of this problem, if someone else hasn't already.

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ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED] Pacman circular update problem

You should also inform the maintainer of catalyst-utils of this problem, if someone else hasn't already.

I don't think its a bug.

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