Solved: 'ppp' Dependency Failure

Question

Hi,
When I tried updating 'pacman -Syu' today, a dependency failed involving 'archboot ppp rp-pppoe'. I removed the packages related to the issue before I updated, but when I tried to re-install:
> pacman -Rc rp-pppoe ppp
> pacman -Syu
> pacman -S archboot
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "ppp=2.4.6", a dependency of "rp-pppoe"
warning: cannot resolve "rp-pppoe>=3.10-7", a dependency of "archboot"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
archboot
:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] n
error: failed to prepare transaction (unexpected error)
> pacman -Ss ppp
core/ppp 2.4.7-1
extra/rp-pppoe 3.11-5
Before the update, I had installed:
ppp 2.4.6-2
rp-pppoe 3.11-5
Is ppp=2.4.6 indeed a dependency of 'rp-pppoe', or can it be a higher version? The page for rp-pppoe says ppp=2.4.7 as a dependency, which is different than what pacman says. Why not use >=?
Could anyone provide any feedback or maybe a solution?
Using x64.
Thank you.
Last edited by AGT (2014-09-03 23:25:12)

Answer 1

I agree: in this case, yes; rp-pppoe does not accept any other version than one, but why was that done in the first place? Was that intentional?
Or, I'm thinking, an update to rp-pppoe, with the current base version, could be released, in the meanwhile, to accept other versions of ppp, as well.
Oops: I just noticed that thea also posted on this topic before me.
Last edited by AGT (2014-09-03 17:46:43)