Pacman fails to prepare the transaction

Hi I recently am having issues upgrading my system.
When I run sudo pacman -Syu I get the following:
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace kfilemetadata with extra/kfilemetadata4? [Y/n] y
:: Replace libkscreen with extra/libkscreen4? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: haskell-nats: requires ghc=7.8.4-1
:: haskell-nats: requires haskell-hashable=1.2.3.1-2
:: haskell-pandoc: requires ghc=7.8.4-1
:: haskell-pandoc: requires haskell-http=4000.2.19-4
:: haskell-pandoc: requires haskell-juicypixels=3.2.3-1
:: haskell-pandoc: requires haskell-sha=1.6.4.1-3
:: haskell-pandoc: requires haskell-aeson=0.8.0.2-12
#.....long list of haskell related packages...
Apparently kfilemetadata4 conflicts with kfilemetadata and libkscreen4 conflicts with libkscreen.
When I am asked to replace one version with the other neither choosing to replace one version with the other,
nor removing the current version seems to work.
What can I do?
Thanks in advance for the help!

The problem is that the archhaskell team started to port their packages to ghc 7.10.1:
https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/arch … -April.txt
From magnus at therning.org Thu Apr 2 17:13:58 2015
From: magnus at therning.org (Magnus Therning)
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 19:13:58 +0200
Subject: [arch-haskell] Ghc 7.10.1 in testing repo
Message-ID: <20150402171358.GA8677@tatooine>
Hi all,
Ghc 7.10.1 has been released, and I've begun the big re-build. I've
revived the testing repo for this, so if you're eager you can switch
over to it until I'm all done.
porting is apparently an ongoing process:
From magnus at therning.org Sat Apr 4 20:12:13 2015
From: magnus at therning.org (Magnus Therning)
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 22:12:13 +0200
Subject: [arch-haskell] Ghc 7.10.1 in repo [was: Re: Ghc 7.10.1 in testing
repo]
In-Reply-To: <20150402171358.GA8677@tatooine>
References: <20150402171358.GA8677@tatooine>
Message-ID: <20150404201213.GA9821@tatooine>
I've just switched over haskell-core to include ghc 7.10.1.
There are a few packages that didn't make it over due to incompatibilities with
the new version of ghc:
cabal-file-th
cblrepo
cmdlib
edit-distance
FileManipCompat
ghc-mod
graphviz
hakyll
http-attoparsec
MonadCatchIO-mtl
nats
pandoc
pandoc-citeproc
shellish
taffybar
timezone-olson
timezone-series
xmonad
xmonad-contrib
I'll try to get them re-added ASAP.
/M
so you have the update problem because some packages you have installed are
depending ghc 7.8, and i.e. pandoc has not been ported to ghc 7.10 and was
temporarily removed from the repository.
so either you follow the other advices, or you keep your feet still and wait
for the end of the porting.
sas

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==> Downloading winff PKGBUILD from AUR...
Comment by: yugrotavele on 20080518 [04:36:56]
A nice GUI frontend for ffmpeg.
First Submitted: Sun, 18 May 2008 04:28:31 +0000
Last Updated: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:23:08 +0000
winff 0.42-1 (Unsupported): GUI for ffmpeg
==> winff dependencies:
- ffmpeg (already installed)
- rpmextract (already installed)
==> Edit the PKGBUILD (recommended) ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ----------------------------------------------
==>y
Please add $EDITOR to your environment variables
for example:
==> Edit PKGBUILD with: (replace gvim with your favorite editor)
==> Edit ./PKGBUILD with: gedit
==> winff dependencies:
- ffmpeg (already installed)
- gtk (already installed)
- gdk-pixbuf (package found)
==> Continue the building of 'winff'? [Y/n]
==> ----------------------------------------------
==>y
==> Building and installing package
==> Making package: winff 0.42-1 (Tue Jul 1 21:34:12 CEST 2008)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Installing missing dependencies...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets: gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-4
Total Download Size: 0.00 MB
Total Installed Size: 0.70 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [############################################################] 100%
(1/1) installing gdk-pixbuf [############################################################] 100%
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
-> Downloading winff-0.42-amd64.deb...
--2008-07-01 21:34:13-- http://winff.googlecode.com/files/winff-0.42-amd64.deb
Resolving winff.googlecode.com... 64.233.187.82
Connecting to winff.googlecode.com|64.233.187.82|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1383594 (1.3M) [application/x-archive application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: `winff-0.42-amd64.deb'
100%[=============================================================================>] 1,383,594 191K/s in 7.4s
2008-07-01 21:34:21 (183 KB/s) - `winff-0.42-amd64.deb' saved [1383594/1383594]
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
winff-0.42-amd64.deb ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting build()...
x - debian-binary
x - control.tar.gz
x - data.tar.gz
./usr/
./usr/bin/
./usr/bin/winff
./usr/share/
./usr/share/doc/
./usr/share/doc/winff/
./usr/share/doc/winff/copyright
./usr/share/doc/winff/winff.pdf
./usr/share/doc/winff/README.txt
./usr/share/doc/winff/README-Icons.txt
./usr/share/doc/winff/README-Presets.txt
./usr/share/doc/winff/changelog
./usr/share/applications/
./usr/share/applications/winff.desktop
./usr/share/winff/
./usr/share/winff/winff.png
./usr/share/winff/presets.xml
./usr/share/winff/languages/
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.es.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.nl.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.fr.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.pb.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.tr.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.de.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.zh.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.it.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.pt.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.pl.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.bg.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.po
==> Tidying install...
-> Removing info/doc files...
-> Compressing man pages...
-> Stripping debugging symbols from binaries and libraries...
==> Creating package...
-> Generating .PKGINFO file...
-> Compressing package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: winff (Tue Jul 1 21:34:22 CEST 2008)
==> Continue installing 'winff'? [Y/n]
==> [v]iew package contents [c]heck package with namcap
==> ----------------------------------------------
==>y
loading package data...
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: winff: requires ffmpeg gtk gdk-pixbuf
==> WARNING: Your package is saved in /tmp/winff-0.42-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
I tried doing it without changing the package name to winff-amd64, but same thing happens. What's going on?

Ahh man, and that's it! It works.
I'm just wondering now how can I contribute this PKGBUILD to AUR, but I can read that in the wiki too.
Thanks!

[solved]dnsutils 9.4.2-1 Error "failed to prepare transaction"

[root@arch-01 jada]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: dnsutils: forcing upgrade to version 9.4.2-1
resolving dependencies... done.
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: bind requires dnsutils=9.4.1_P1
[root@arch-01 jada]#
[root@arch-01 jada]# pacman -Sf dnsutils
warning: dnsutils: forcing upgrade to version 9.4.2-1
resolving dependencies... done.
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: bind requires dnsutils=9.4.1_P1
[root@arch-01 jada]#
what I have to do now?
Last edited by JaDa (2007-12-24 04:11:39)

[root@arch-01 jada]# pacman -Sy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra 309.6K 277.1K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100%
community is up to date
local database is up to date
[root@arch-01 jada]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: bind: forcing upgrade to version 9.4.2-1
warning: dnsutils: forcing upgrade to version 9.4.2-1
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.
Targets: dnsutils-9.4.2-1 bind-9.4.2-1
Total Package Size: 3.73 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from core...
dnsutils 1908.5K 330.7K/s 00:00:06 [#####################] 100%
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
bind 1914.1K 505.4K/s 00:00:04 [#####################] 100%
checking package integrity... done.
cleaning up... done.
(2/2) checking for file conflicts [#####################] 100%
(1/2) upgrading dnsutils [#####################] 100%
(2/2) upgrading bind [#####################] 100%
[root@arch-01 jada]#

Pacman fails to prepare the transaction

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