Package Issue updating a package]

Joshua Lokken joshua at joshualokken.com
Mon Jan 19 19:27:17 UTC 2015


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From: Joshua Lokken <joshua at joshualokken.com>
To: Doug Hardie <bc979 at lafn.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:04:18 -0800
Subject: Re: Package Issue updating a package

On Jan/17 02:37AM, Doug Hardie wrote:
> I needed to update clamav-milter.  I used:
> 
> 	pkg upgrade clamav-milter
> 
> The result was an error:
> 
> Checking integrity... done (1 conflicting)
> pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver:
> conflict rule: The following packages conflict with each other: clamav-milter-0.98.5_1(r), clamav-0.98.5_1(r)
> conflict rule: The following packages conflict with each other: clamav-milter-0.98.5_1(r), clamav-milter-0.98.5_1(r)
> upgrade rule: upgrade local clamav-milter-0.98.4_1 to remote clamav-milter-0.98.5_1
> cannot install package clamav-milter, remove it from request? [Y/n]: n
> 
> 
> pkg list only shows clamav-milter, not clamav.  At one time I did have clamav installed, but deleted it.
> 
> So I used pkg delete clamav-milter.  That worked.
> 
> Then, pkg install clamav-milter.  Same errors.  How do I recover and get an updated clamav-milter?

I believe pkg is telling you that clamav and clamav-milter are mutually exclusive.
I think:

# pkg delete clamav
# pkg install clamav-milter

Would get you the desired result.


--
Joshua



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