recent arch upgrade avahi vs. nss-mdns

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recent arch upgrade avahi vs. nss-mdns

Post by snarkout » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:25 am

If you're having trouble upgrading your arch/kde box, and see this message when doing a pacman -Syu:

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:: avahi conflicts with nss-mdns. Remove nss-mdns? [Y/n]
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error: this will break the following dependencies:
  nss-mdns: is required by kdelibs
check out this mailing list post. It'll save you some headaches.

http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch ... 08453.html
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Post by Judland » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:31 am

Yup... saw that.

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Re: recent arch upgrade avahi vs. nss-mdns

Post by Patrick » Mon Feb 06, 2006 10:37 am

Snarkout wrote: check out this mailing list post. It'll save you some headaches.

http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch ... 08453.html
I ran into the same issue. Theres a post in the forum with same fix.
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