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marbens

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Registered: 2025-04-04

Posts: 7

[SOLVED] Downgrading from testing breaks because of new qemu packages

If I try to downgrade from testing by commenting out the testing repositories in pacman.conf, and running

pacman -Syuu

It fails with:

resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing qemu-common (9.2.3-1) breaks dependency 'qemu-common=10.0.0-1' required by qemu-hw-uefi-vars

I presume this is because qemu-hw-uefi-vars does not exist in extra yet. Is it safe to just remove qemu-hw-uefi-vars with

pacman -Rdd qemu-hw-uefi-vars

and then downgrade through that same command again?

Last edited by marbens (2025-04-30 19:13:11)

mackin_cheese

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Registered: 2025-01-07

Posts: 459

Re: [SOLVED] Downgrading from testing breaks because of new qemu packages

Whenever you have questions like that, it's best to look up the package concerned to see if removing that package will cause any breakages depending on the packages. qemu-hw-uefi-vars will only break testing version of qemu-desktop, so ensure you don't have the testing version of quemu-desktop, afterwards, it's safe to remove qemu-hw-uefi-vars and then downgrade with no issues

Last edited by mackin_cheese (2025-04-30 19:05:51)