Re: [Fink-users] update-all failing due to circular dependencies

[Christian E. <bla...@gm...>]

* Richard Cobbe on Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 10:32:21 -0400
> Fink 0.29.1, tracking unstable source (rsync)
> Mac OSX 10.5.6 Intel with all updates
> XQuartz 2.3.2
> 
> I tried a "fink selfupdate; fink update-all" this morning, and it's failing
> with a circular dependencies error.  For the first few times this happened,
> I've been able to get it to go a little bit farther by running debfoster
> (which removes build-deps) and retrying the update-all, but I seem to have
> hit a fixed point on this.
> 
> Here's the list of packages I'm trying to install, along with the list of
> dependencies that fink is pulling in:
> 
> [perdita:~]$ fink list -o
> Information about 8666 packages read in 1 seconds.
> (i)  dbus             1.2.12-9     Message bus system for applications
> (i)  dbus-shlibs      1.2.12-9     Message bus system for applications
> (i)  firefox2-shlibs  2.0.0.20-4   Lightweight browser from mozilla.org
> (i)  glib2-shlibs     2.18.4-4     Handy library of utility functions
> (i)  gnome-keyring    2.24.1-2     GNOME Key Ring
> (i)  gnome-keyring-s  2.24.1-2     GNOME Key Ring
> (i)  gtk+2            2.14.7-4     The Gimp Toolkit
> (i)  gtk+2-shlibs     2.14.7-4     The Gimp Toolkit
> (i)  gtkglext1-shlib  1.0.6-1011   OpenGL Extension to GTK
> (i)  libbonobo2       2.24.0-3     GNOME component and compound document system
> (i)  libbonobo2-shli  2.24.0-3     GNOME component and compound document system
> (i)  libbonoboui2     2.24.0-2     The Bonobo Compound Document Interfaces
> (i)  libbonoboui2-sh  2.24.0-2     The Bonobo Compound Document Interfaces
> (i)  orbit2           2.14.16-3    High-performance CORBA Object Request Broker
> (i)  orbit2-shlibs    2.14.16-3    High-performance CORBA Object Request Broker
> (i)  pango1-xft2-ft2  1.22.4-2     GTK+ - i18n libs (for freetype >= 2.1.9)
> (i)  pango1-xft2-ft2  1.22.4-2     GTK+ - i18n text shared libraries (for fr...
> [perdita:~]$ fink update-all
> Information about 8666 packages read in 1 seconds.
> The following 17 packages will be installed or updated:
> dbus dbus-shlibs firefox2-shlibs glib2-shlibs gnome-keyring
> gnome-keyring-shlibs gtk+2 gtk+2-shlibs gtkglext1-shlibs libbonobo2
> libbonobo2-shlibs libbonoboui2 libbonoboui2-shlibs orbit2 orbit2-shlibs
> pango1-xft2-ft219 pango1-xft2-ft219-shlibs
> The following 56 additional packages will be installed:
> atk1 audiofile autoconf automake1.10 avahi avahi-dev cairo dbus-dev
> docbook-dsssl-nwalsh docbook-dtd docbook-xsl esound expat1 fontconfig2-dev
> freetype219 gconf2-dev glib2-dev glitz gnome-vfs2-unified-dev gtk+2-dev
> gtk-doc intltool40 libart2 libavahi-core5-shlibs libavahi-glib1-dev
> libbonobo2-dev libdaemon-shlibs libdatrie libgcrypt libgettext3-dev libglade2
> libgnome2-dev libgnomecanvas2-dev libgpg-error libiconv-dev libidl2
> libjasper.1 libjpeg libpng3 libtasn1-3 libthai libthai-dev libtiff libtool2
> libtool2-shlibs libxml2 libxslt m4 openjade orbit2-dev pango1-xft2-ft219-dev
> pixman popt sgml-entities-iso8879 xft2-dev xml-parser-pm588
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> Failed: Package requirements not satisfied
> 
> I'm not sure what other information will help folks debug this problem, but
> I was running the update session inside screen with logging turned on, so I
> can provide more detailed output if necessary.
> 
> How can I get past this and finish the update?

I was in a similar situation and solved it iirc by

$ fink update gtk+2
$ fink update glib2-shlibs
$ fink update-all

c
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