pkg upgrade conflicts

Jávorszky Balázs balazs at gnifanip.info
Wed Apr 1 06:09:15 PDT 2026


This is not an option for me...

Jávorszky Balázs

On 3/31/26 17:25, Autumn Jolitz wrote:
> This happened to me as well.
>
> I noted the critical packages it wanted to deinstall, let it do so, then reinstalled the missing ones again.
>
> Very weird experience. Nothing like “All your packages are wrong!” lol
>
> Autumn
>
>> On Mar 24, 2026, at 2:40 PM, Antonio Huete Jimenez <tuxillo at quantumachine.net> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, it’s kind of a mess. What I did was to see the packages that was going to remove and install them back later.
>>
>>> On 24 Mar 2026, at 21:35, Jávorszky Balázs <balazs at gnifanip.info> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I did a `pkg upgrade`, and it encountered a lot of conflicts that are not resolvable, for likely each and every upgraded package. I just stopped it with Ctrl C.
>>>
>>> ```bash
>>> root at somehost /h/balazs# uname -a
>>> DragonFly somehost 6.4-RELEASE DragonFly v6.4.2-RELEASE #9: Sun May 11 14:35:15 CEST 2025  root at somehost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/X86_64_GENERIC  x86_64
>>> root at somehost /h/balazs# pkg upgrade
>>> Updating Avalon repository catalogue...
>>> Fetching meta.conf: 100%    178 B   0.2kB/s    00:01
>>> Fetching data.pkg: 100%    6 MiB 342.3kB/s    00:18
>>> Processing entries: 100%
>>> Avalon repository update completed. 32156 packages processed.
>>> All repositories are up to date.
>>> New version of pkg detected; it needs to be installed first.
>>> The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
>>>
>>> Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
>>>     pkg: 1.21.3 -> 2.2.0 [Avalon]
>>>
>>> Number of packages to be upgraded: 1
>>>
>>> 4 MiB to be downloaded.
>>>
>>> Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
>>> [1/1] Fetching pkg-2.2.0.pkg: 100%    4 MiB 293.0kB/s    00:15
>>> Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
>>> [1/1] Upgrading pkg from 1.21.3 to 2.2.0...
>>> [1/1] Extracting pkg-2.2.0: 100%
>>> Updating Avalon repository catalogue...
>>> Avalon repository is up to date.
>>> All repositories are up to date.
>>> Checking for upgrades (432 candidates): 100%
>>> Processing candidates (432 candidates): 100%
>>> Cannot solve problem using SAT solver, trying another plan
>>> Cannot solve problem using SAT solver, trying another plan
>>> Cannot solve problem using SAT solver, trying another plan
>>> Cannot solve problem using SAT solver, trying another plan
>>> Cannot solve problem using SAT solver, trying another plan
>>> Cannot solve problem using SAT solver, trying another plan
>>> Cannot solve problem using SAT solver, trying another plan
>>> Cannot solve problem using SAT solver, trying another plan
>>> Cannot solve problem using SAT solver, trying another plan
>>> pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver
>>> upgrade rule: upgrade local libnghttp2-1.62.1 to remote libnghttp2-1.65.0
>>> cannot install package libnghttp2, remove it from request? [Y/n]:
>>> pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver
>>> require rule: package libgd(r) depends on a requirement provided by: webp(l)
>>> require rule: package libgd(r) depends on a requirement provided by: tiff(l)
>>> require rule: package libgd(r) depends on a requirement provided by: png(l)
>>> require rule: package libgd(r) depends on a requirement provided by: jpeg-turbo(l)
>>> require rule: package libgd(r) depends on a requirement provided by: freetype2(l)
>>> require rule: package libgd(r) depends on a requirement provided by: fontconfig(l)
>>> upgrade rule: upgrade local libgd-2.3.3_13,1 to remote libgd-2.3.3_13,1
>>> cannot install package libgd, remove it from request? [Y/n]:
>>> pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver
>>> require rule: package gdk-pixbuf2(r) depends on a requirement provided by: glib(l)
>>> require rule: package gdk-pixbuf2(r) depends on a requirement provided by: glib(l)
>>> require rule: package gdk-pixbuf2(r) depends on a requirement provided by: glib(l)
>>> require rule: package gdk-pixbuf2(r) depends on a requirement provided by: glib(l)
>>> upgrade rule: upgrade local gdk-pixbuf2-2.42.10_3 to remote gdk-pixbuf2-2.42.12_1
>>> cannot install package gdk-pixbuf2, remove it from request? [Y/n]:
>>> pkg: Cannot solve problem using SAT solver
>>> (rest omitted)
>>> ```
>>>
>>> Jávorszky Balázs
>>>
>>>
>>>


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