[arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 75, Issue 85

[Frederic Bezies]

On 30/01/2011 08:58, arch-general-request at archlinux.org wrote:
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>     1. Cannot install grub2 update from testing repo. (fredbezies)
>     2. Re: Cannot install grub2 update from testing repo. (Allan McRae)
>     3. Re: New GRUB2 packages - any comments ? (Kirill Churin)
>     4. [signoff] kernel26-2.6.37-5 (Tobias Powalowski)
>     5. Re: [signoff] kernel26-2.6.37-5 (Sergey Manucharian)
>     6. Re: wiki page for Building Trinity on Arch - You want it here
>        or on the trinity site? (David C. Rankin)
>     7. Re: wiki page for Building Trinity on Arch - You want it here
>        or on the trinity site? (Thomas Dziedzic)
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> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 08:30:04 +0100
> From: fredbezies<fredbezies at gmail.com>
> To: arch-general at archlinux.org
> Subject: [arch-general] Cannot install grub2 update from testing repo.
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> I cannot install this update.
>
> I have this version of grub2 installed :
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> [fred at fredo-arch-xfce ~]$ pacman -Qi grub2
> Nom                   : grub2
> Version               : 1.98-5
>
> And when I try a pacman -Syu, here is the error message I get :
>
> [fred at fredo-arch-xfce ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
> :: Synchronisation des bases de donn?es de paquets...
>   testing est ? jour;
>   core est ? jour;
>   extra est ? jour;
>   community-testing        12,0K  146,3K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100%
>   community               419,9K  921,9K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100%
> :: D?but de la mise ? jour compl?te du syst?me...
> :: Remplacer grub2 par testing/grub2-bios ? [O/n] o
> R?solution des d?pendances...
> Recherche des conflits possibles entre paquets...
> Erreur: un conflit de paquets impossible ? r?soudre a ?t? d?tect?
> Erreur: la pr?paration de la transaction a ?chou? (conflit de d?pendances)
> :: grub2-common et grub2-bios sont en conflit (grub2)
>
> In english : grub2-common and grub2-bios are conflicting.
>

Indeed. I reported this issue and it is fixed now.

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Frederic Bezies - fredbezies at gmail.com
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