On 02/05/2010 09:51 PM, Brendan Long wrote:
So I've been having a strange problem on my computer with updates. The xulrunner package in the official repos didn't want to update because firefox-branded (from the AUR) depends on an old version, but firefox-branded won't update because it needs a newer version of xulrunner. I got it to work by removing firefox-branded, updating, then installing it again, but it's a complicated solution and entirely not obvious what's going wrong. The error message made it sound like there was just no update for xulrunner available:
:: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: firefox-branded: requires xulrunner=1.9.1.7
Not sure how this could be made easier, but I thought I'd mention how confusing it is.
-Brendan Long
the erros means: firefox-branded from your system has no updates pending and pacman wants to update xulrunner. but it can't since firefox-branded needs 1.9.1.7. Since firefox-branded is unsupported pacman cannot do anything about it and is your duty to fix it. -- Ionut