Cannot upgrade due to safety switch

Kuuchuu

Solus repository information is up-to-date.
Safety switch forces the upgrade of following packages:
glib2
The following packages will be upgraded:
glib2 glib2-32bit glib2-devel glibc-32bit pcre2 pcre2-32bit pcre2-devel
...

Installing 1 / 7
glib2-84-85-1-x86_64.delta.eopkg [cached]
Installing glib2, version 2.74.0, release 85
pcre2 release >= 12 dependency of package glib2 is not satisfied
[✓] Syncing filesystems success
Program terminated.
glib2 package cannot be installed unless the dependencies are satisfied

glib2 needs a newer version of pcre2, but the safety switch is forcing glib2 to update causing the update to fail. How can I bypass the safety switch to update just pcre2* ?

EbonJaeger

If you're on Unstable, you shouldn't be updating right now due to the ongoing GNOME stack upgrade, which is currently paused due to an issue (the one you just hit). Trying to update anyway while this is happening is highly likely to break things. You should also be checking the #Solus-dev IRC channel topic to see if it is safe to update or not. 🙂

Kuuchuu

EbonJaeger As far as I know I'm not on Unstable, I don't recall ever switching to it. I've just been updating whenever the system update message pops up. How would I go about checking which repo (Stable/Unstable) I'm using?

Kuuchuu

Kuuchuu Figured out how to check repos, sorry about that. Sure enough I am on the unstable repo. I don't think I ever changed that, not sure how I ended up on it. If I wanted to change to the stable repo is this the url I would use: "https://mirrors.rit.edu/solus/packages/stable/eopkg-index.xml.xz"?
Should I wait until the issues are sorted out and attempt another upgrade on unstable before swapping to stable?
Thanks for your help

EbonJaeger

Kuuchuu The URL to use is http://mirrors.rit.edu/solus/packages/shannon/eopkg-index.xml.xz

I think that just adding and enabling that repo and then sudo eopkg up should work just fine. Worst case, reinstall the pcre2 and/or GLib packages after switching to the stable repository.

algent

Kuuchuu You should be safe, you just can't update for now. Solus state prior to this update is stable.