Pgk upgrade solver problems

[Paul Pathiakis]

Carl,

I had something like this and decided to regen the pkg database.

pkg -Ba  (I think)

It cleared most of this up.

P.
On 12/05/2014 23:58, Carl Johnson wrote:
> I have just tried to run a 'pkg upgrade', but I am getting a lot of 'SAT
> solver' problems.  It appeared that it wants to remove the offending
> packages, so I did a '^C' after the first few of them to abort any
> operations.
>
> The program output looked normal at first and downloaded all of the
> packages, but then I started getting errors like these (long lines):
>
>    pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver:
>    cannot install package p5-Locale-gettext~devel/p5-Locale-gettext, remove it from request? [Y/n]:
>    cannot install package xfce~x11-wm/xfce4, remove it from request? [Y/n]:
>    pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver:
>    cannot install package Thunar~x11-fm/thunar, remove it from request? [Y/n]:
>    pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver:
>    cannot install package glib~devel/glib20, remove it from request? [Y/n]:
>    cannot install package xfce4-desktop~x11-wm/xfce4-desktop, remove it from request? [Y/n]:
>    pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver:
>    cannot install package libxfce4util~x11/libxfce4util, remove it from request? [Y/n]:
>    cannot install package libreoffice~editors/libreoffice, remove it from request? [Y/n]:
>
> I can't figure out if these messages mean that it will not upgrade these
> packages, or if it means that it will remove the packages.  I currently
> have pkg version 1.3.8_3 and last upgraded all packages about a month
> ago.  I also upgraded the base system from 10.0-RELEASE-p12 to
> 10.1-RELEASE since then, but I didn't think that should effect the
> packages.  Does anybody have any suggestions on what these errors mean,
> and what I can do about them?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.