[pacman-dev] replaces vs conflicts

[Florian Pritz]

On 13.08.2010 10:49, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 13/08/10 18:34, Allan McRae wrote:
>> On 13/08/10 17:41, Allan McRae wrote:
>>> Has something changed in the handling of provides/conflicts/replaces.
>>>
>>> :: Synchronizing package databases...
>>> core 35.7K 30.4K/s 00:00:01 [######################] 100%
>>> extra 458.8K 52.5K/s 00:00:09 [######################] 100%
>>> community 380.4K 40.4K/s 00:00:09 [######################] 100%
>>> :: Starting full system upgrade...
>>> resolving dependencies...
>>> looking for inter-conflicts...
>>> :: elfutils and libelf are in conflict. Remove libelf? [y/N]
> For some reason I am getting this but other people are getting the the 
> usual replaces.   So if no-one else replicates, just ignore this...

I got a conflict too. pacman 3.4.0-2

Also shouldn't you be able to ignore that with -d?

> sudo pacman -Sd elfutils
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: elfutils and libelf are in conflict. Remove libelf? [y/N]
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: elfutils and libelf are in conflict

-- 
Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net

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