2011/10/3 Jorge Almeida jjalmeida@gmail.com:

I'm trying to update the system, and cannot:

#  pacman -Su        :: Starting full system upgrade...        warning: shorewall: local (4.4.23.3-1) is newer than custom (4.4.12.1-1)        resolving dependencies...        looking for inter-conflicts...        :: perl and Term-ReadLine-Gnu are in conflict (perl-term-readline). Remove Term-ReadLine-Gnu? [y/N]        error: unresolvable package conflicts detected        error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)        :: perl and Term-ReadLine-Gnu are in conflict (perl-term-readline)        ~

This is an innovation indeed. What to do? I assume the package perl-term-readline install the Perl package Term::ReadLine. Please correct me if I'm wrong. The Perl package Term::ReadLine does, essentially, nothing. (http://search.cpan.org/~flora/Term-ReadLine-1.07/lib/Term/ReadLine.pm)

This is a show-stopper.

TIA

Jorge Almeida

I think is included in the perl core and that's why is conflicting ? ... I guess you installed it by hand (perl-term-readline from AUR).

Just remove it, perl bring this package in the core.

2011/10/3 Ángel Velásquez angvp@archlinux.org:

I think is included in the perl core and that's why is conflicting ? ... I guess you installed it by hand (perl-term-readline from AUR).

No, I installed by hand Term-ReadLine-Gnu. I removed it now just to see how it goes, and, of course, the programs I need it for don't work. I noticed that they were not working even with Term-ReadLine-Gnu installed (after working for years), so it must have to do with recent changes in Perl.

The CPAN package Term-ReadLine is just a stub, the fact that Perl provides it means nothing. Term-ReadLine is an interface to the package that does the real work, which is either Term-ReadLine-Gnu or Term-ReadLine-Perl. The latter has less features and I think it is supposed to be slower (according to its author, IIRC). So, Term-ReadLine-Gnu is a must.

So, I guess the Perl changes are the problem, and I'm don't know where to go from here...

Thanks

Just remove it, perl bring this package in the core.

:(

J.A.

Once again:

2011/10/4 Cédric Girard girard.cedric@gmail.com

If you need Term::ReadLine::GNU, try this PKGBUILD that seems correctly written: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12530

This PKGBUILD does not provides perl-term-readline and thus won't conflict with perl.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Jorge Almeida jjalmeida@gmail.com wrote:

2011/10/4 Cédric Girard girard.cedric@gmail.com:

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If you need Term::ReadLine::GNU, try this PKGBUILD that seems correctly written: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12530

I'll try that in a few hours. But I fear the problem is with Perl. We'll see.

OK, I tried https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12530, it compiles without problem, but then my programs that require ir don't work: they fail with "undefined symbol" error messages. I tracked the problem to two other packages from AUR, and after recompilation and installing everything is all right now.

Thanks

Jorge Almeida