[Solved] Why do kernel packages not provide linux/kernel26?

mid-kid · 2014-06-11 20:31:39

I've been using vanilla kernel packages for a while now because lazyness, but I decided to install linux-pf.
I seem to remember using linux-pf, and removing the vanilla linux package, so I tried to do now, and saw pacman wanting to remove nearly all my packages.
I want to remove it because when unused, it serves for nothing but clogging up the update process on my slow laptop. I'll probably have to make a dummy package.
I went to search for a while, and found that other kernel packages didn't provide linux/kernel26 either.
Is there any reason why this changed? (Or, if my memory is wrong, why is it this way?)

Last edited by mid-kid (2014-06-11 20:42:53)

graysky · 2014-06-11 20:34:42

Why does removing the linux package want to pull away nearly all of your packages? Post the output of

# pacman -Rs linux

mid-kid · 2014-06-11 20:37:33

graysky wrote:

Why does removing the linux package want to pull away nearly all of your packages? Post the output of
# pacman -Rs linux

mid-kid@PocketRocket :: ~ $ sudo pacman -Rs linux
s'estan comprovant les dependències...
error: ha fallat en preparar la transacció (no s'han pogut satisfer les dependències)
:: catalyst-test: requereix linux>=3.0
:: catalyst-test: requereix linux<3.16

I just noticed it's because catalyst depends explicitly on linux for some crappy reason -_-
I didn't use catalyst before...

graysky · 2014-06-11 20:39:30

Yes, that package seem to require the linux package... you could modify its PKGBUILD removing this requirement or changing it to linux-pf or whatever your flavor.

Arch Linux

#1 2014-06-11 20:31:39

[Solved] Why do kernel packages not provide linux/kernel26?

#2 2014-06-11 20:34:42

Re: [Solved] Why do kernel packages not provide linux/kernel26?

#3 2014-06-11 20:37:33

Re: [Solved] Why do kernel packages not provide linux/kernel26?

#4 2014-06-11 20:39:30

Re: [Solved] Why do kernel packages not provide linux/kernel26?

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