pkg upgrade conflicts

Jávorszky Balázs balazs at gnifanip.info
Tue Mar 24 13:35:33 PDT 2026


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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