Arch Linux

x-yuri

Member

Registered: 2013-01-06

Posts: 161

[SOLVED] warning: dependency cycle detected

I'm about to upgrade packages (the last time I did this was on 2022-06-18):

# pacman -Syu
...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: mesa will be installed before its libglvnd dependency

warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: rubygems will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-abbrev will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-base64 will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-benchmark will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-bigdecimal will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-bundler will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-cgi will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-csv will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-date will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-delegate will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-did_you_mean will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-digest will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-drb will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-ruby2_keywords will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-english will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-erb will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-etc will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-fcntl will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-fiddle will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-fileutils will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-find will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-forwardable will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-getoptlong will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-io-console will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-io-nonblock will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-io-wait will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-ipaddr will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-json will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-logger will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-mutex_m will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-net-http will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-uri will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-open-uri will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-time will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-open-uri will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-tmpdir will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-minitest will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-power_assert will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-rake will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-rexml will be installed before its ruby dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-test-unit will be installed before its ruby dependency

I can see that mesa and libglvnd depend on each other.

About ruby, it was split on 2022-07-12.

Can I ignore these warnings?

Last edited by x-yuri (2022-09-05 12:42:37)

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: [SOLVED] warning: dependency cycle detected

Just watch to make sure there's not any failures in post_install scripts. As long as there's not, you're fine.