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

Sentinel kanocz at intrak.sk
Sat Dec 13 10:45:19 EST 2008


Dan McGee wrote:
> 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
>   
Aha, I see, so 1.2-2 stands for 1.2.0-2 ... Thanks for the explanation ...

Tom


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