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olorian

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Registered: 2011-12-16

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How to upgrade dependencies alongside desired packages?

Hi everybody!
I meet every time the same issue, I'm sure I'm just dumb or something similar.
My system works very fine, I would like to update package X because of a feature improvement but as I give "pacman -S X", X updates and then complains about missing libdependence1.2-3.so.
I usually go around manually upgrading every dependence I can find, but it's pretty frustrating having to do it in a 2012 Linux distribution.
I really have no intention of giving blind -Syu's or having to read all of the changelogs and warnings (which I still have to say I have trouble to find) just to update a group of packages.
Please tell me there is a nice option to add to pacman to tell him "update this package AND its dependencies recursively" which I just haven't seen in the wikis, or I'll have to be disappointed once more [yeah, I know nobody cares, of course] by this system which simply works way better [that is, on my pc at least] than every other OS I've ever tried but keeps falling on trivial points for - it seems - a matter of principle.

yeah, sorry for the tone the message seems to have, it is not meant to be rude. I'm grateful to the devs for their work which keeps the system clean and performing, I just really can't understand some of their choices which are apparent from the way the system tools behave.

Last edited by olorian (2012-04-26 08:24:45)

jasonwryan

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Re: How to upgrade dependencies alongside desired packages?

You are doing it wrong...

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olorian

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Re: How to upgrade dependencies alongside desired packages?

Yeah I read that, but it just goes around the issue/question, it doesn't even clarify what partial upgrades are in the sense of the article itself, it mainly refers to library updates → need to rebuild packages, while I meant the opposite, so I was asking just in case it was specified elsewhere.
It feels so weird that, by default, one can update one package without upgrading the libraries it depends from.

Last edited by olorian (2012-04-26 09:17:45)

jasonwryan

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Re: How to upgrade dependencies alongside desired packages?

Yeah I read that, but it just goes around the issue/question, it doesn't even clarify what partial upgrades are in the sense of the article itself, so I was asking just in case it was specified elsewhere.

No. It explicitly states that what you are trying to do is unsupported. If you want to use Arch, then -Syu.

Otherwise stop whinging about the fact that your screwdriver won't hammer in nails...

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Re: How to upgrade dependencies alongside desired packages?

For additional reference, please see here, and follow the link [1] in the red warning box.

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Trilby

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Re: How to upgrade dependencies alongside desired packages?

Pacman -S <package> is not even the right way to upgrade a single package.

Read `man pacman`.

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