Force downgrade despite other packages with versioned deps? [solved]

graysky · 2015-06-28 18:57:38

I want to force a downgrade of perl in an Arch LXC (don't care if I break it), but others packages contain a versioned dependency to the newer perl. Is there an option to force the downgrade ignoring the versioned dependencies?

# pacman --force -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/perl-5.20.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz                              :(
loading packages...
warning: downgrading package perl (5.22.0-1 => 5.20.2-1)
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: net-snmp: requires perl>=5.22
:: perl-clone: requires perl>=5.22
:: perl-dbi: requires perl>=5.22
:: perl-html-parser: requires perl>=5.22
:: perl-xml-libxml: requires perl>=5.22

Last edited by graysky (2015-06-28 19:50:27)

clfarron4 · 2015-06-28 19:40:17

Isn't there a flag to ignore dependencies?

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Try the following flag:

--nodeps

I found it on the man page.

Last edited by clfarron4 (2015-06-28 19:41:13)

graysky · 2015-06-28 19:50:10

Thanks... I was thinking along the lines of forcing but that was not required.

clfarron4 · 2015-06-29 11:54:14

graysky wrote:

Thanks... I was thinking along the lines of forcing but that was not required.

Don't worry, I've done this myself before and I wondered why force didn't work as well.

Arch Linux

#1 2015-06-28 18:57:38

Force downgrade despite other packages with versioned deps? [solved]

#2 2015-06-28 19:40:17

Re: Force downgrade despite other packages with versioned deps? [solved]

#3 2015-06-28 19:50:10

Re: Force downgrade despite other packages with versioned deps? [solved]

#4 2015-06-29 11:54:14

Re: Force downgrade despite other packages with versioned deps? [solved]

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