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hybrid

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Registered: 2007-02-05

Posts: 261

upgrade issue virtualbox-additions in conjunction with virtualbox_bin

Hi, I have installed virtualbox_bin from aur and the virtualbox-additions from the community-repo. Everything has always been working just fine but since today pacman -Syu gives me an error:

pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
[...]
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: virtualbox-ose conflicts with virtualbox_bin. Remove virtualbox_bin? [Y/n] n
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: virtualbox-ose: conflicts with virtualbox_bin

The thing is, I don't have virtualbox-ose installed (and never had)!

pacman -Qs virtualbox
local/virtualbox-additions 1.5.2-2
    Guest additions for VirtualBox
local/virtualbox_bin 1.5.4-3
    Powerful x86 virtualization - binary version (non GPL - free for personal use and evaluation)

Alright, there has been a new release of the virtualbox-additions package and the old pkgbuild had depends=('virtualbox') in it, the new one has depends=('virtualbox-ose') in it.
I just rebuilt the new virtualbox-additions package from abs and I changed the depends line from virtualbox-ose to virtualbox and it worked again. Well I guess it's pretty useless to put virtualbox in the depends field, since there is no virtualbox package one might as well leave it empty/delete that line.
Well romashka, I dunno what to suppose here: removing the depends-line can't really be the solution, writing 'virtualbox' in there kinda ends up as the same thing. But putting in 'virtualbox-ose' or 'virtualbox_bin' causes trouble too for the people using the other license.

luuuciano

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Registered: 2007-01-27

Posts: 310

Re: upgrade issue virtualbox-additions in conjunction with virtualbox_bin

thanks, that was stoping me from upgrade the system...

that, and the qt3 qt kdemod issue...

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thayer

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,560

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Re: upgrade issue virtualbox-additions in conjunction with virtualbox_bin

Yes, I meant to say thanks as well... I had accidentally upgraded from virtualbox_bin to the ose edition, but after seeing your post I figured out what happened. I put a comment about it on the AUR page too.

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