[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Suppress repeated dependency resolving error messages

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Mon Sep 17 19:26:36 EDT 2012


On 17/09/12 14:17, Allan McRae wrote:
> When hitting an unresolvable dependency, pacman will output a message
> like:
> 
> warning: cannot resolve "glibc>=1.0-2", a dependency of "gcc-libs"
> 
> This currently is repeated every time the package with the unresolvable
> dependency is seen during dependency resolution.  Limit this to printing
> the output once.
> 

I'm cancelling this patch.  It suppresses any warning for a package not
directly pulled in.  That is fine for a full upgrade operation, but not
when there is an error down the dependency chain of an individual
package install.

Allan




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