On (10/14/11 17:41), Karol Blazewicz wrote: -~> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto -~> wrote: -~> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Karol Blazewicz -~> > wrote: -~> >> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: -~> >>> I see my text was probably hard to read, but it was not about some -~> >>> packages not being updated for pacman 4.0 yet but a possible bug (or -~> >>> two) in pacman itself. -~> >>> -~> >>> -- -~> >>> Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre -~> >>> -~> >> -~> >> Same thing happened when I installed yaourt: -~> >> -~> >> [2011-10-14 14:36] Running 'pacman -S yaourt' -~> >> [2011-10-14 14:36] warning: /etc/pacman.conf installed as -~> >> /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew -~> >> [2011-10-14 14:36] warning: /etc/makepkg.conf installed as -~> >> /etc/makepkg.conf.pacnew -~> >> [2011-10-14 14:36] upgraded pacman (4.0.0-2 -> 3.5.4-4) -~> >> [2011-10-14 14:36] installed package-query (0.9-1) -~> >> [2011-10-14 14:36] installed yaourt (0.10.2-1) -~> >> -~> >> Now when I want to upgrade to pacman 4 it behaves as expected: -~> >> -~> >> resolving dependencies... -~> >> looking for inter-conflicts... -~> >> error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) -~> >> :: package-query: requires pacman<3.6 -~> >> -~> > -~> > You'll have to wait until package-query is updated to pacman 4 or just -~> > uninstall it. I had that problem too and decided to uninstall yaourt. -~> > -~> > -- -~> > A: Because it obfuscates the reading. -~> > Q: Why is top posting so bad? -~> > -~> > ------------------------------------------- -~> > Denis A. Altoe Falqueto -~> > Linux user #524555 -~> > ------------------------------------------- -~> > -~> -~> My question is why pacman decided to downgrade itself to satisfy -~> package-query's dependency? -~> I think it should fail due to unresolvable dependencies: -~> -~> warning: cannot resolve "pacman<3.6", a dependency of "package-query" -~> :: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies: -~> yaourt This is what IgnorePkg is for, isn't it? After all, pacman is just another package, and will be upgraded or downgraded as required by the %DEPENDS% entries. -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D