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lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

Posts: 5,000

Ignore vlc produces weird error message

The -Syu --ignore vlc produces the following this day:

: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: vlc: ignoring package upgrade (0.9.9a-1 => 0.9.9a-2)
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: vlc: requires ffmpeg>=20081220
bash-3.2#
None of the EXTRA packages in my system were upgraded.

Cannot understand why the vlc dependencies prevented the upgrades when it is the ignored package!!!

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Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Ignore vlc produces weird error message

that's because ffmpeg was updated. Either update vlc (I don't know why you use --ignore vlc) or rebuild it from abs (change the version of the ffmpeg depends to 0.5)

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

Posts: 5,000

Re: Ignore vlc produces weird error message

I have a modded vlc in my system built from abs download PKGBUILD.
It has always been ignored when using -Syu --ignore vlc.

To get it to ignore vlc today, I must also --ignore ffmpeg.

Why doesn't --ignore vlc actually mean --ignore vlc and all depends?

Perhaps a definition of the ignore process will help to understand.

It definitely doesn't make sense to me now....

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Prediction...This year will be a very odd year!
Hard work does not kill people but why risk it: Charlie Mccarthy
A man is not complete until he is married..then..he is finished.
When ALL is lost, what can be found? Even bytes get lonely for a little bit!     X-ray confirms Iam spineless!