FS#12478 - Orphan "ivtv-utils" conflicts with "kernel-headers"

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Chris Giles (Chris.Giles) - Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 21:41 GMT
Last edited by Anonymous Submitter - Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 01:53 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
The orphan "ivtv-utils" package conflicts with "kernel-headers". For my Microdia webcam to function, "gui-microdia-git" from AUR requires "ivtv-utils".


Additional info:
ivtv-utils 1.0.3-1 and kernel-headers 2.6.27.6-2


Steps to reproduce:

`--> yaourt -S ivtv-utils
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): ivtv-utils-1.0.3-1 [0.22 MB]

Total Download Size: 0.22 MB
Total Installed Size: 1.05 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
ivtv-utils-1.0.3-1-i686 220.8K 50.1K/s 00:00:04 [######################################################################################################] 100%
checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [######################################################################################################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
ivtv-utils: /usr/include/linux/ivtv.h exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
.-(~)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(chris@localhost)-
`--> yaourt -Qo /usr/include/linux/ivtv.h
/usr/include/linux/ivtv.h is owned by kernel-headers 2.6.27.6-2
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Closed by  Anonymous Submitter
Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 01:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in ivtv-utils 1.3.0
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 23:23 GMT
i2c driver was merged in kernel 2.6.26.
ivtv-utils in extra is extremely out-of-date, last version is 1.3.0 and doesn't provide any drivers (then doesn't provide any conflicts) but only the test tools.

I hope some DEV will update it soon.
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 23:27 GMT
I wrote on arch-dev-public ML
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-December/009505.html
Comment by Anonymous Submitter - Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 01:52 GMT
Fixed.

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