[arch-general] AUR / Official Repo version problem

[Ionut Biru]

On 02/05/2010 09:51 PM, Brendan Long wrote:
> So I've been having a strange problem on my computer with updates. The
> xulrunner package in the official repos didn't want to update because
> firefox-branded (from the AUR) depends on an old version, but
> firefox-branded won't update because it needs a newer version of
> xulrunner. I got it to work by removing firefox-branded, updating, then
> installing it again, but it's a complicated solution and entirely not
> obvious what's going wrong. The error message made it sound like there
> was just no update for xulrunner available:
>
> :: Starting full system upgrade...
> resolving dependencies...
> looking for inter-conflicts...
> error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
> :: firefox-branded: requires xulrunner=1.9.1.7
>
> Not sure how this could be made easier, but I thought I'd mention how
> confusing it is.
>
> -Brendan Long

the erros means:
firefox-branded from your system has no updates pending and pacman wants 
to update xulrunner. but it can't since firefox-branded needs 1.9.1.7. 
Since firefox-branded is unsupported pacman cannot do anything about it 
and is your duty to fix it.

-- 
Ionut