On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Am Dienstag, 2. März 2010 04:17:21 schrieb Allan McRae:
Hmmm...
> pacman -U libjpeg-8a-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
loading package data... checking dependencies... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: ghostscript: requires libjpeg>=8 :: imlib2: requires libjpeg>=8 :: jasper: requires libjpeg>=8 :: libdjvu: requires libjpeg>=8
....
To avoid this, I will be renumbering it to libjpeg-8.0.1 (which is the soname version).
Allan
and here we have another reason to punish anybody using versioned dependencies. ;-) (of course upstream needs to be hit, too)
Blaming this on versioned deps is punishing the messenger; this package wouldn't upgrade without a force option either because the same version comparison is used everywhere... -Dan