[pacman-dev] Odd -Su checkdeps error message

Nagy Gabor ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu
Sat Jul 19 08:32:04 EDT 2008


> [ngaba at Arch pacman]$ LANG=C sudo pacman -Su
> :: Starting full system upgrade...
> resolving dependencies...
> looking for inter-conflicts...
> error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
> :: firefox-i18n: requires firefox=3.0
> 
> [ngaba at Arch pacman]$ LANG=C pacman -Qi firefox
> Name           : firefox
> Version        : 3.0-2
> ...
> 
> Hm. What's this?
> [ngaba at Arch pacman]$ LANG=C sudo pacman -Su --debug | grep firefox
> [12:20:47] debug: new version of 'firefox' found (3.0-2 => 3.0.1-1)
> [12:20:47] debug: package 'firefox' not found in sync
> ...
> 
> Aha. We should somehow inform the user about the selected packages.
> Btw, these --debug messages are also odd, (instead of 'firefox' not
> found in sync (== target list), we should say adding firefox to the
> target list).
> 

Some notes:

0. We are in string freeze :-/
1. Maybe we should introduce PM_LOG_INFO, alpm cannot send a simple
message (which is not warning, error or debug).
2. I couldn't find any rule for displaying '::' or not...

Bye





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