circumvent this pacman dependency issue

ozooha · 2009-11-02 02:51:16

I have recently updated my catalyst driver and everything works fine but pacman doesn't let me upgrade - see the last line below.
I want to keep everthing as of now the way it is but I would still like to update without this dependency error.
How do I circumvent this issue?
Thanks.
OZooHA
[ozooha@ozoohaPC ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu update
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
archlinuxfr is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: catalyst-utils: requires xorg-server<1.7.0
[ozooha@ozoohaPC ~]$

Allan · 2009-11-02 02:56:52

Until that package is updated to support the current xorg, you will have to add a bunch of entries to you IgnorePkg line in pacman.conf. Start with xorg-server and keep going until you are done.

flamelab · 2009-11-02 03:12:36

IgnoreGroup won't work ?

ozooha · 2009-11-02 03:49:05

Thank you. Appreciate the promptness.

Snowman · 2009-11-02 07:14:55

flamelab wrote:

IgnoreGroup won't work ?

I don't think there's an group for xorg.

grey · 2009-11-02 09:38:56

I'm not sure IgnorePkg works here. I have the following:

IgnorePkg = xorg-server xorg-server-utils xorg-utils xorg-xfs
IgnorePkg = xf86-video-intel xf86-video-vesa xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse
IgnorePkg = mesa libgl intel-dri dri2proto libxkbui

But when I do pacman -Syu I get

Targets (34): xextproto-7.1.1-1  fixesproto-4.1.1-1  inputproto-2.0-1  
              libx11-1.3.2-1  libxext-1.1.1-1  libdmx-1.1.0-1  libdrm-2.4.15-1  
              libxt-1.0.7-1  libxmu-1.0.5-1  libxpm-3.5.8-1  libxaw-1.0.7-1     
              libxfixes-4.0.4-1  libxcomposite-0.4.1-1  libxdamage-1.1.2-1      
              libxdmcp-1.0.3-1  libxfont-1.4.1-1  libxfontcache-1.0.5-1         
              renderproto-0.11-1  libxrender-0.9.5-1  libxft-2.1.14-1  libxi-1.3-2  
              libxinerama-1.1-1  libxkbfile-1.0.6-1  libxtst-1.1.0-1                
              libxv-1.0.5-1  libxvmc-1.0.5-1  libxxf86dga-1.1.1-1
              libxxf86misc-1.0.2-1  libxxf86vm-1.1.0-1  shared-mime-info-0.70-2
              xorg-apps-7.5-2  xorg-font-utils-7.5-2  xorg-xkb-utils-7.5-1
              xterm-250-1

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   21.04 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n

Wouldn't this break my system. All these packages arrived in the [extra] together with xorg-server 1.7.1, so I don't think they'll work with 1.6.*.
Or would they?

Nezmer · 2009-11-02 09:48:36

Snowman wrote:

flamelab wrote:
IgnoreGroup won't work ?
I don't think there's an group for xorg.

pacman -Si xorg-server|grep Groups
Groups         : xorg

Nezmer · 2009-11-02 09:57:13

grey wrote:

Wouldn't this break my system. All these packages arrived in the [extra] together with xorg-server 1.7.1, so I don't think they'll work with 1.6.*.
Or would they?

Theoretically , they would not . But pacman can't catch all the dependencies that need to be versioned. Keep your package cache so you can downgrade any package causing problems .

As a fellow catalyst user , "xf86-input-synaptics" was the only package I had to manually downgrade due to major ABI change (according to the logs) .

I would have filed a bug report If I knew what dependency needs to be versioned :

$ pactree xf86-input-synaptics
|--xf86-input-synaptics
   |--libxi
      |--libxext
         |--libx11
            |--libxcb
               |--xcb-proto
               |--libxdmcp
                  |--xproto
                  |--glibc
                     |--kernel-headers
                     |--tzdata
               |--libxau
                  |--glibc
            |--kbproto
         |--xextproto
   |--libxtst
      |--libxext
      |--libxi
      |--recordproto
      |--inputproto

rocknrolf77 · 2009-11-02 11:13:58

Can't wait for the oss driver to give proper 3D. And kick catalyst's ass out the window from the six'th floor. I absolutely hate not being able to upgrade normally. Hopefully it's not a long until it does. They are now making really good progress.

For those who missed these good news : http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a … 0_3d&num=1

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circumvent this pacman dependency issue

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Re: circumvent this pacman dependency issue

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