A conflict is an unusual event that is different from a routine upgrade to a new version of a package.
It looks like you deleted the most important parts of the pacman output and just paraphrased it instead. You should post the full pacman output so we can understand exactly which packages were conflicting and what pacman was asking you. --David On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ml.sfrg...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > I'm new to all of this... > > I installed MSYS2 on a 64-bit Windows 8.1 machine just over > a week ago, then installed both > > mingw-w64-i686-gcc and mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc > > so that I can start finding out about building 32- and 64-bit > binaries from C programs. So far I've only compiled and run > 32-bit & 64-bit C and C++ test Hello World programs, but that > did work. > > Tonight I issued: pacman -Syuu > from a MSYS2 shell, asssuming that this would bring my local > pacman databases uptodate, which I assume it did, but it also > listed a couple of "conflicting packages": > > $ pacman -Syuu > :: Synchronising package databases... > mingw32 361.4 KiB 774K/s 00:00 [###] 100% > mingw32.sig 96.0 B 93.8K/s 00:00 [###] 100% > mingw64 361.2 KiB 2.37M/s 00:00 [###] 100% > mingw64.sig 96.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [###] 100% > msys is up to date > :: Starting core system upgrade... > there is nothing to do > :: Starting full system upgrade... > resolving dependencies... > looking for conflicting packages... > > Packages (2) mingw-w64-i686-p11-kit-0.23.9-1 > mingw-w64-x86_64-p11-kit-0.23.9-1 > > and asked if I wanted them installed. I said no, then issued: > > $ pacman -Ss p11 > mingw32/mingw-w64-i686-p11-kit 0.23.9-1 [installed: 0.23.7-1] > Library to work with PKCS#11 modules > mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-p11-kit 0.23.9-1 [installed: 0.23.7-1] > Library to work with PKCS#11 modules > msys/libp11-kit 0.23.8-1 (libraries) [installed] > Library to work with PKCS#11 modules > msys/libp11-kit-devel 0.23.8-1 (development) > Libp11-kit headers and libraries > msys/p11-kit 0.23.8-1 [installed] > Library to work with PKCS#11 modules > > > Does the "conflict" described by "conflicting packages" just > mean that there are now more recent versions available of > packages I already have installed? > > How should i decide whether or not to install the new ones? > > > -- > Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Msys2-users mailing list > Msys2-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list Msys2-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
