pkg upgrade conflicts

[Autumn Jolitz]

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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