Hi,
the problem could be solved by installing the problematic dependency
first, but why couldn't pacman -Syu not resolve the dependency?
This is what happened:
$ pacman -Si perl-cpanplus perl-package-constants
Repository : community
Name : perl-cpanplus
Version : 0.9152-2
Depends On : perl perl-log-message perl-archive-extract perl-term-ui perl-log-message-simple
perl-module-pluggable perl-object-accessor perl-package-constants
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Repository : community
Name : perl-package-constants
Version : 0.06-1
Depends On : perl
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
$ date;sudo pacman -Syu
Sun Jun 28 17:44:01 CEST 2015
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
archaudio-production is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: ardour: ignoring package upgrade (4.0-2 => 4.1-1)
warning: audacity: local (2.1.0-2) is newer than extra (2.1.0-1)
warning: clthreads: local (2.4.0-5) is newer than community (2.4.0-1)
warning: gvfs: local (2013.08.18-1) is newer than extra (1.24.1-2)
warning: hunspell-en: ignoring package upgrade (7.1-3 => 2015.05.18-4)
warning: libfishsound: local (1.0.0-2) is newer than community (1.0.0-1)
warning: linux-rt: ignoring package upgrade (4.0.4_rt1-1 => 4.0.5_rt4-1)
warning: linux-rt-docs: ignoring package upgrade (4.0.4_rt1-1 => 4.0.5_rt4-1)
warning: linux-rt-headers: ignoring package upgrade (4.0.4_rt1-1 => 4.0.5_rt4-1)
warning: linux-rt-lts: ignoring package upgrade (3.10.61_rt65-1 => 3.18.16_rt13-1)
warning: linux-rt-lts-docs: ignoring package upgrade (3.10.61_rt65-1 => 3.18.16_rt13-1)
warning: linux-rt-lts-headers: ignoring package upgrade (3.10.61_rt65-1 => 3.18.16_rt13-1)
warning: ignoring package replacement (mate-calc-1.8.0-2 => galculator-gtk2-2.1.3-3)
warning: meterbridge: local (0.9.2-5) is newer than community (0.9.2-1)
warning: pulseaudio: local (2013.08.18-1) is newer than extra (6.0-2)
warning: sylpheed: local (3.4.2-20141124) is newer than community (3.4.2-1)
warning: virtualbox: ignoring package upgrade (4.3.12-1 => 4.3.28-1)
warning: virtualbox-guest-iso: ignoring package upgrade (4.3.12-1 => 4.3.28-1)
warning: virtualbox-host-dkms: ignoring package upgrade (4.3.12-1 => 4.3.28-1)
warning: zita-alsa-pcmi: ignoring package upgrade (0.2.0-1 => 0.2.0-2)
warning: zita-resampler: ignoring package upgrade (1.3.0-2 => 1.3.0-3)
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: perl-cpanplus: requires perl-package-constants
$ sudo pacman -S perl-package-constants
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (1) perl-package-constants-0.06-1
Total Download Size: 0.00 MiB
Total Installed Size: 0.00 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages ...
perl-package-constants-0.06-1-any 4.7 KiB 1581K/s 00:00 [--------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [--------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [--------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [--------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [--------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [--------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) installing perl-package-constants [--------------------------------------] 100%
$ date;sudo pacman -Syu
Sun Jun 28 17:47:47 CEST 2015
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
archaudio-production is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
[...]
Packages (60) [...]
Total Download Size: 47.35 MiB
Total Installed Size: 251.29 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: -1.47 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
Regards,
Ralf
