[solved] Can't upgrade system....

Meskarune · 2009-07-02 20:18:17

[meskarune@Lychee ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 archlinuxfr is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
error: cannot resolve "readline>=6.0", a dependency of "gnutls"
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: gnutls: requires readline>=6.0
[meskarune@Lychee ~]$

I'm really stumped...The lastest version of readline pacman sees is 5.2.013-2 but I found it here:http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/readline/ I downloaded the source for readline 6.0 on here http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html. Will it screw everything up if I install it?

I know that packages should all stay up to date together and I read in a few forum posts that upgrading to readline 6.0 messed up other packages. Should I downgrade gnutls? I'm not sure what to do. I just want to update my system...

Oh and I am not currently using testing. Thanks for any help.

Last edited by Meskarune (2009-07-03 02:05:25)

Brownigan09 · 2009-07-02 20:24:00

As I understand it, there's a delay between when a package gets pushed to the Arch main servers and when it reaches the mirrors. It seems like packages compiled against the new readline and readline itself weren't all put up at the same time. You can either wait for the new readline to be pushed to your mirror of choice, or edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and comment out mirrors that haven't been updated since the readline update.

Edit: Oddly enough, the svn entries for gnutls[1] and readline[2] indicate they were both pushed at the same time. I had the same problem as you earlier though, so maybe it's a mirror problem of some sort...

[1]http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/g … xtra-i686/
[2]http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/r … core-i686/

Last edited by Brownigan09 (2009-07-02 20:33:36)

Meskarune · 2009-07-02 20:37:45

Hey thanks for telling me. I currently have a mirrorlist generated from rank mirrors. I'll re-instate the old mirrorlist and see if that allows me to update everything.

Meskarune · 2009-07-02 21:15:20

Ok, changing my mirrorlist to the default with US mirrors uncommented didn't help.

Meskarune · 2009-07-02 21:20:02

...I did do a pacman -Sc a couple days ago when I noticed /var was 20GB ... could have messed something up?

Brownigan09 · 2009-07-02 21:20:49

Meskarune wrote:

Ok, changing my mirrorlist to the default with US mirrors uncommented didn't help.

Pacman parses mirrors top-down in the mirrorlist file. Try commenting out the topmost server and running -Syu again. If that doesn't work, comment out the first two. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Trent · 2009-07-03 01:48:39

I'm having the same problem as it happens, but it'll work itself out eventually. There are a whole bunch of new packages that haven't made it to my mirrors yet (bash 4 is to blame for the sudden uptick). It'll be here by tomorrow morning most likely. Give the changes time to come to your local mirror; there's no reason to rush things.

Meskarune · 2009-07-03 01:58:02

Ok, the third mirror down from the top ended up working. Thanks Brownigan09 for all the help, I appreciate it. I'll mess with my mirrorlist a bit more to get a good balance between speed and up-to-date packages. And yeah...I suppose patience is a virtue...I just installed on my new desktop a week ago though, and I'm still installing and configuring software.

Last edited by Meskarune (2009-07-03 02:03:37)

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