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

[Dan McGee]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Sentinel <kanocz at intrak.sk> 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

1.2-2 is a lower version than 1.2.1, as well. Note the dashes versus
dots- anything after the dash is the Arch specific revision number.

-Dan