On 12/18/2014 12:06 AM, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Guido Falsi <m...@madpilot.net> wrote: >> >> On 12/17/14 17:34, Craig Rodrigues wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I did a "pkg update -f ; pkg upgrade -y" on a FreeBSD 10-stable >>> system and ran into this error: >>> >>> Checking integrity... done (3 conflicting) >>> pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver: >>> pkg: cannot find spandsp-devel in the request >>> pkg: cannot solve job using SAT solver >>> Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) >>> Conflicts with the existing packages have been found. >>> One more solver iteration is needed to resolve them. >>> >>> As an end-user installing packages, this error message makes no >>> sense at all to me, and doesn't tell me what I need to do >>> to fix the problem. Can this (and other SAT solver) error messages >>> be enhanced to include some hints as to what a user must do >>> to solve the problem? >>> >>> What seemed to get me past this problem was to: >>> >>> pkg delete -f spandsp-devel >>> pkg upgrade -y >>> >> >> that's what UPDATING entry 20141215 suggests. It is always better to >> look at it. >> >> >> > Thanks for the UPDATING pointer. You are correct. However, > I would still like to see an error message from pkg which > gives the user a better idea of what to do to solve the problem. > > For people who install/upgrade binary packages, they don't always read > ports/UPDATING. > I know I don't.
The promise/goal with 1.3+ is that you should not have to. Pkg is bugged here. The solver integration is not yet mature. -- Regards, Bryan Drewery
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