[arch-general] pacman dependency error

[Damjan Georgievski]

> While doing pacman -Suy today:
> resolving dependencies...
> looking for inter-conflicts...
> error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
> :: intel-dri: requires libdrm>=2.4.5-3
> :: libgl: requires libdrm>=2.4.5-3
> :: mesa: requires libdrm>=2.4.5-3
>
> Now, I'd used the [testing] repo to update xorg to 1.6 and then
> disabled it. However pacman -Qi shows libdrm to be at 2.4.6-1
> so I don't see why pacman refuses to upgrade.

this has been happening to me too. for some reason pacman wants to
*downgrade* libdrm and xf86-video-intel. I have the x server, intel
driver, evdev, and mesa all explicitly installed from testing, while
testing is at the end of my pacman.conf.

A quick workaround is
IgnorePkg = xf86-video-intel libdrm
in pacman.conf after which I get:
warning: libdrm: ignoring package upgrade (2.4.6-1 => 2.3.1-3)
warning: xf86-video-intel: ignoring package upgrade (2.6.99.902-1 => 2.4.3-1)


-- 
damjan