[arch-general] pacman 4 logic error - what part of 'no' doesn't it understand?

[David C. Rankin]

On 01/25/2012 08:16 AM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote:
> I think pacman is right. What you asked would make the installation
> inconsistent: you don't want to replace kernel-lts and will try to
> install linux-lts, which conflicts with the former. I think you should
> first use pacman -Syu --ignore linux-lts and, later, pacman -Syu
> again. That will have the effect you want.

Thanks Altoé,

  That's what I ended up doing. Looks like it was just the naming convention
change that caused the problem. The only 'bug' type behavior was that this was
an 'update' so if I didn't have linux-lts installed, why was pacman trying to
install it?

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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.