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Der Chefkoch

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Registered: 2020-12-05

Posts: 100

yay keeps (re)installing an AUR package

as above, the balena-etcher package from AUR is being offered for reinstallation (same version) every time I run it

:: 1 Packages to upgrade.
1  aur/balena-etcher  1.7.3-1 -> 2:1.7.3-1
==> Packages to exclude: (eg: "1 2 3", "1-3", "^4" or repo name)

thx for hints to resolve this

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: yay keeps (re)installing an AUR package

Those aren't the same versions...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#epoch

If this happens every time and you've already updated the package then it sounds like an upstream bug. Try posting here...
https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,559

Re: yay keeps (re)installing an AUR package

The maintainer screwed up and removed the epoch: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … 3cfd832394

They forgot to also remove it in the .SRCINFO, but you cannot remove an epoch once it's there anyway.

Der Chefkoch

Member

Registered: 2020-12-05

Posts: 100

Re: yay keeps (re)installing an AUR package

Those aren't the same versions...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#epoch

If this happens every time and you've already updated the package then it sounds like an upstream bug. Try posting here...
https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues

The maintainer screwed up and removed the epoch: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … 3cfd832394

They forgot to also remove it in the .SRCINFO, but you cannot remove an epoch once it's there anyway.

Thanks for the explanations, its clear now