Update to ttf-bitstream wants to remove Xorg (?)

judland · 2005-12-22 15:22:13

This morning I did my routine pacman -Syu and got this message:

ttf-bitstream-vera conflicts with xorg. Remove xorg? [Y/n]

Obviously I don't want to remove Xorg. Is anyone else getting this error? Is there any sort of work-around you can suggest? Should the bitstream maintainer be informed of the problem?

UPDATE:

I checked the official package repository and it seems as though the bitstream package was updated a couple days ago, but it has no maintainer.

judland · 2005-12-22 15:46:30

I was just poking around the system a little bit.

Would this problem be appearing because I have installed Xorg font packages from Testing (ie: xorg-fonts-100dpi, xorg-fonts-75dpi), which may have bitstream as part of them already?

judland · 2005-12-22 16:11:57

Never mind. I've been catching up on some reading and it seems as though this problem revolves around the new Xorg package in Testing... correct?

Would it be a safe (or just a stupid) idea to remove the Testing directory from /var/lib/pacman and comment out Testing from my pacman.conf so I don't have to deal with the whole Xorg testing issue at this time?

JGC · 2005-12-22 16:12:48

the old xorg used to conflict with ttf-bitstream-vera. The new one doesn't, because it's no longer included. Pacman checks conflicts first before upgrading any packages, so it wants to remove ttf-bitstream-vera first.

judland · 2005-12-22 16:22:45

Thanks, JGC.

However, Pacman is asking if I want to remove Xorg, not ttf-bitstream, or at least that's what I'm getting from the comment mentioned in my first post.

I simply commented out [Testing] and the URL reference below it in pacman.conf and I can now safely upgrade the system without worrying about Xorg for the time being.

Simple, when you know how

B15HOP · 2006-05-19 20:37:55

I am getting the same error, but I cant seem to work around it. :S

byte · 2006-05-19 21:56:45

Xorg7

B15HOP · 2006-05-20 01:10:20

byte wrote:

Xorg7

I guess I forgot to mention that I screwed my arch install by trying to fix it myself. I didn't realise that deleting all of the files and folders in /var/lib/pacman... :'(

Arch Linux

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