On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Curtis Vaughan<[email protected]> wrote:
> Can't seem to find a solution to the following problem.
> After running fink selfupdate-rsync and then running selfupdate, I get the
> following error:
>
> Reading buildlock packages...
> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/fink/debs/db3_3.3.11-1030_darwin-i386.deb
> dpkg: regarding .../db3_3.3.11-1030_darwin-i386.deb containing db3:
>  db47-aes conflicts with db
>  db3 provides db and is to be installed.
> /sw/bin/dpkg: unable to 'compile' with parameter
> /sw/fink/debs/db3_3.3.11-1030_darwin-i386.deb (--install):
>  conflicting application - db3 will not be installed
> Errors reported when 'compiling':
>  /sw/fink/debs/db3_3.3.11-1030_darwin-i386.deb
> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1 Failed: can't
> install package db3-3.3.11-1030
>
> I've tried removing db3 and db47-aes, installing first just one or the
> other, but each time I get the same basic error.
>
> [NB. because my system has Russian lang. I've had to translate some of the
> messages above. I think I've translated them right though.
>
>
>
I assume you mean "update-all" rather than your second "selfupdate" above.

A workaround is _not_ to do that, but to update the packages individually, cf.

http://www.finkproject.org/faq/comp-general.php?phpLang=en#alternates

You probably have a sufficiently complicated tree that the dependency
engine isn't happy.
-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
akh AT finkproject DOT org
Fink User Liaison and Documenter

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