Bart Smaalders wrote:
Danek Duvall wrote:On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 01:25:59PM +0100, Chris Gerhard wrote:Trying to update the image on my laptop and it is complaining about violated constraints. The system should be only using the supported packages so I'm not sure why it is wanting to install [email protected],5.11-0.111 if indeed that is what this message means?You're stuck in this weird hole that we haven't figured a particularly good way out of, which came up because multi-variant (sparc + x86) packages wereintroduced halfway between releases.Actually, the source of this problem is the inability of the plan creation phase to back-track when it has a constraint violation.The sat solver will fix this, and similar problems as long as a solution exists - and if it doesn't, those pkgs won't get upgraded.
Currently the failure also prevents the packages that can be upgrading from upgrading until you individually select them which is a bit of a pain.
- Bart
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