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maxi_jac

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From: France

Registered: 2008-08-02

Posts: 72

wants to upgrade a package that should not ?

Hello,

I think pacman is trying to upgrade a package (xf86-video-ati) with an older version.

When the xf86-video-ati has been tagged 6.13.1 I used abs to edit the old package to version 6.13.1.
Now -Syu wants to replace 6.13.1-1 with 6.13.0-1, how is this possible ?
I'm using testing.

$ pacman -Q xf86-video-ati
xf86-video-ati 6.13.1-1

$ LC_ALL=C sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 kde-unstable is up to date
 testing is up to date
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 arch-games is up to date
 community-testing is up to date
 community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (3): udev-159-1  udev-compat-159-1  xf86-video-ati-6.13.0-1

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   3.14 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

(don't bother with the "Total Download Size:    0.00 MB" it's because it is already downloaded, not installed)
I don't understand why :s

Allan

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Re: wants to upgrade a package that should not ?

In the PKGBUILD: options=('!libtool' 'force')

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maxi_jac

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From: France

Registered: 2008-08-02

Posts: 72

Re: wants to upgrade a package that should not ?

Thanks for your answer.
Now I understand how, but don't understant why, nor how to "live" with that, without setting x86-video-ati to the IgnorePkg list.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: wants to upgrade a package that should not ?

If you want to keep the currently installed version, use IgnorePkg - that's what it's there for.

maxi_jac

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From: France

Registered: 2008-08-02

Posts: 72

Re: wants to upgrade a package that should not ?

Hmmm I think I have no other choice... I'll add it there and will have to watch periodically for when to remove it from the list ._.
Why in the first place was this package tagged with a force option ?

tomk

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Re: wants to upgrade a package that should not ?

svn log shows the force option added last December to revert to 6.12.4 after a series of 6.12.99.git* packages were released.

I don't think it's needed anymore, but I could be wrong.

maxi_jac

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From: France

Registered: 2008-08-02

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Re: wants to upgrade a package that should not ?

Ok, should I open a bug ?

maxi_jac

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From: France

Registered: 2008-08-02

Posts: 72

Re: wants to upgrade a package that should not ?

I opened a report that got closed.
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20149

I don't understand how "people upgrading from an older version that required the force option won't get the upgrade. " as tomk told it was used to force a revert to 6.12.99.
Now it is 6.13.x, so why is the force still needed ?

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: wants to upgrade a package that should not ?

fyi JGC has reopened it - the force option will be removed.