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AGT

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Registered: 2012-10-27

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Solved: 'ppp' Dependency Failure

Hi,

When I tried updating 'pacman -Syu' today, a dependency failed involving 'archboot ppp rp-pppoe'. I removed the packages related to the issue before I updated, but when I tried to re-install:

> pacman -Rc rp-pppoe ppp
...
> pacman -Syu
...
> pacman -S archboot
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "ppp=2.4.6", a dependency of "rp-pppoe"
warning: cannot resolve "rp-pppoe>=3.10-7", a dependency of "archboot"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      archboot

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] n
error: failed to prepare transaction (unexpected error)
> pacman -Ss ppp
core/ppp 2.4.7-1
extra/rp-pppoe 3.11-5

Before the update, I had installed:

ppp         2.4.6-2
rp-pppoe    3.11-5

Is ppp=2.4.6 indeed a dependency of 'rp-pppoe', or can it be a higher version? The page for rp-pppoe says ppp=2.4.7 as a dependency, which is different than what pacman says. Why not use >=?

Could anyone provide any feedback or maybe a solution?

Using x64.

Thank you.

Last edited by AGT (2014-09-03 23:25:12)

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

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Re: Solved: 'ppp' Dependency Failure

Yeah, same here. An update for rp-ppoe is in testing; but I think it should have been released simultaneously.

AGT

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Registered: 2012-10-27

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Re: Solved: 'ppp' Dependency Failure

I agree: in this case, yes; rp-pppoe does not accept any other version than one, but why was that done in the first place? Was that intentional?
Or, I'm thinking, an update to rp-pppoe, with the current base version, could be released, in the meanwhile, to accept other versions of ppp, as well.

Oops: I just noticed that thea also posted on this topic before me.

Last edited by AGT (2014-09-03 17:46:43)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Solved: 'ppp' Dependency Failure

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=186569

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Solved: 'ppp' Dependency Failure

As I said in the other thread, this was fixed. If you still have a problem, it's because your mirror is slow.

AGT

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Re: Solved: 'ppp' Dependency Failure

Thank you for the reference, Karol; and thank you for the resolution, maintainers.

AGT

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Re: Solved: 'ppp' Dependency Failure

Sorry, I'm just late to post. Yes, now I did notice that it is fixed.