On Feb 17, 2012 7:24 AM, "Fons Adriaensen" <fons@linuxaudio.org> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 09:12:02AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
"Run 'pacman -Syu' and try again."
But you ignored it:
"I've no intention to do a full system upgrade ATM"
I did not ignore it, I gave some reasons why that was not an option at that time. And those reasons are in line with advice posted on this list by people who are supposed to know what they are talking about.
And its been explained that without versions deps (rarely used due to maintenance headaches) updating your database with -Sy without running a full update is not supported. pacman cannot handle that, period. The correct way to install packages on an out-of-date system is to NOT update your database. You may need an out-of-date mirror or to manually download from mirror archives.