Automatic upgrade of AUR packages dependent on kernel version.

Question

I have an issue with upgrading AUR packages with pacaur. When I try to upgrade with one of the following commands:
pacaur -u [package_name]
pacaur -Su -a
pacaur -Syu
I keep getting the error 'no results found for dependencies)' 
Here an example output:
[ ~ ]$ pacaur -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: spl-git: requires linux=3.17.6-1
:: zfs-git: requires linux=3.17.6-1
:: Starting AUR upgrade...
:: resolving dependencies...
:: no results found for dependencies)
As seen in this example, the system upgrade is failed due to two kernel packages which require the previous kernel version.
I wonder, does the AUR upgrade fails after the failed system upgrade because of new spl-git and zfs-git packages require the new kernel version? And the message ":: no results found for dependencies)" is caused by this?
It seems there is a kind of a circular dependency in this case - kernel doesn't upgrade because of zfs requires the older kernel, and zfs doesn't upgrade because the new version of zfs requires the new kernel.
Previously I upgraded AUR packages manually, by first removing them, then upgrading the kernel and after that installing new versions of packages.
Is it possible to automatically upgrade kernel packages? If so can this be done with pacaur?
Last edited by nbd (2015-01-19 23:39:49)

Answer 1

Hi, so I'm not the only newbie doing such things.
here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=181717
ukhippo wrote:Afterwards I also suggest using “pacman -Syyu” to update (note the double “y”, this forces a refresh of all packages)
meaning first add the repository and the key for demz-repo-core https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Un … -repo-core.
I did that today but the output was just:
[root@machine1 ~]# pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 121.6 KiB 599K/s 00:00 [########################################################] 100%
extra 1806.6 KiB 671K/s 00:03 [########################################################] 100%
community 2.5 MiB 672K/s 00:04 [########################################################] 100%
multilib 121.2 KiB 932K/s 00:00 [########################################################] 100%
demz-repo-archiso 5.5 KiB 37.9K/s 00:00 [########################################################] 100%
demz-repo-archiso.sig 287.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [########################################################] 100%
demz-repo-core 7.8 KiB 48.6K/s 00:00 [########################################################] 100%
demz-repo-core.sig 287.0 B 0.00B/s 00:00 [########################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: spl-git: requires linux=3.17.6-1
:: zfs-git: requires linux=3.17.6-1
even though I read
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sor … =&flagged=
x86_64     Core     linux     3.18.2-2     The Linux kernel and modules     2015-01-15     2015-01-16
and
https://github.com/demizer/archzfs
    spl-git     Update git packages for kernel 3.18.2-2     4 days ago
    zfs-git     Update git packages for kernel 3.18.2-2     4 days ago
I don't really know if I want to remove the package first, while running the machine from a zfs filesystem.
If it runs automatically the chance of me making an error is a little smaller, don't really want to have a not bootable system.