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toad

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[SOLVED:wq] - pacman conundrum

I've suffered from this hal bug and downgraded to util-linux-ng-2.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz - so far so good. I then checked man pacman to ignore util-linux-ng-2.17-1 from now on. Between the man page and the wiki there appear to be two ways:

a) pacman -Syu --ignore util-linux-ng-2.17-1
which yields:

toad@deskarch 1002\9 ~ > sudo pacman -Syu --ignore util-linux-ng-2.17-1
:: Synchronising package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 archlinuxfr is up to date
 arch-games is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: kbluetooth: local (4.0.4RC2-1) is newer than extra (0.4.1-1)
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (2): bluez-4.61-1 [0.66 MB]  util-linux-ng-2.17-1 [2.59 MB]

Total Download Size:    3.26 MB
Total Installed Size:   8.79 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n

Okay, so that didn't work. Onto method b) that is edit /etc/pacman.conf - here the pertinent stanza from my pacman.conf file:

# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
IgnorePkg=util-linux-ng-2.17-1
#IgnoreGroup =

But

toad@deskarch 1003\11 ~ > sudo pacman -Syu
Password:
:: Synchronising package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 archlinuxfr is up to date
 arch-games is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: kbluetooth: local (4.0.4RC2-1) is newer than extra (0.4.1-1)
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (2): bluez-4.61-1 [0.66 MB]  util-linux-ng-2.17-1 [2.59 MB]

Total Download Size:    3.26 MB
Total Installed Size:   8.79 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n

So who is the cretin, pacman or me?

HELP!!!

Last edited by toad (2010-02-21 16:56:37)

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Pierre

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Re: [SOLVED:wq] - pacman conundrum

You need to replace util-linux-ng-2.17-1 with util-linux-ng; so just remove the version and pkgrel.

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toad

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Re: [SOLVED:wq] - pacman conundrum

Pierre, you get a beer or two next time I'm in Bonn

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