[arch-general] AUR / Official Repo version problem

[Dan McGee]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Brendan Long <korin43 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/05/2010 12:56 PM, Ionut Biru wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
> Yeah I figured it out and everything is working, it's just annoying that if
> firefox-branded and xulrunner were both in the official repos or both in the
> AUR, it would've updated, but since one is official and one isn't, they
> refused to update. It also doesn't help that that the error message (could
> not satisfy dependencies) sounds like "the version of xulrunner you need
> isn't available".

The reason is you are (probably) using yaourt, which is just a wrapper
around pacman. Pacman spits out the above messages because it knows
nothing about non-binary "repos" and thus correctly stops you from
upgrading.

-Dan