[pacman-dev] replaces vs conflicts

[Xavier Chantry]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Florian Pritz
<bluewind at server-speed.net> wrote:
> On 13.08.2010 20:42, Xavier Chantry wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I got a conflict too. pacman 3.4.0-2
>>>
>>> Great, I am not going mad.   But not great, something strange is
>>> happening...
>>>
>>
>> Can you show debug output ?
>> And libelf is not in any of your sync repo, ie pacman -Si libelf does
>> not return anything ?
>
> According to my (some hours old) database it has been in core.
>

Well the code does this (sync.c) :
    /* Search for literal then replacers in each sync database.
     * If found, don't check other databases */

So if the literal (libelf) still exists in the db, the replacer
(elfutils) isn't even considered.

But it's then pulled as a dep for gcc, thus the conflict message.