[arch-general] bug in pacman? or something else?

[Allan McRae]

Sentinel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is this a bug, or pacman can not correctly figure out the version of 
> heimdal? Or maybe I am missing something...?
>
> I installed wireshark but with a workaround. I edited the PKGBUILD end 
> deleted the heimdal dependency. As I have the correct version of 
> heimdal installed it was built successfully (that is why the output 
> below wants to reinstall wireshark). Bud I don't think this workaround 
> is realy KISS.
>
> root at sentinel:/home/sentinel# pacman -S wireshark
> warning: wireshark-1.0.4-3 is up to date -- reinstalling
> resolving dependencies...
> error: cannot resolve "heimdal>=1.2.1", a dependency of "wireshark"
> error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
> :: wireshark: requires heimdal>=1.2.1
> root at sentinel:/home/sentinel# pacman -Q heimdal
> heimdal 1.2-2
>
> Tom
>

The heimdal update has now been pushed from [testing].  Wait for your 
mirror to sync and all will fix itself.

Allan