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jtheripper

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Registered: 2007-09-17

Posts: 3

svn stupid question

maybe a stupid question, but after 3 hours of digging i still can't figure out what does mean that package has a -svn extension....

All because pacman is asking me if i want remove PACKAGE because it conflicts with PACKAGE-SVN...

Thanks for being so patient...
jacopo

natalian

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Registered: 2007-09-06

Posts: 29

Re: svn stupid question

svn/subversion is s version control system .. it basically tracks each update to a source tree so u can revert to a specific state for example .. pkg with -svn ,-cvs, -bzr, -etc .. is  usually the most bleeding edge version of that software, i.e, it's not released yet .. therefore pkg-svn is an unreleased version of pkg ... in most cases there should be no issue so if you just need extra functionality not provided by the offially released versioin or u just wanna try it out ... then replace the offending pkg on prompt .. i'd recommend sticking to the officially released one though, -svn can be buggy .. hope that made sense

jtheripper

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Registered: 2007-09-17

Posts: 3

Re: svn stupid question

svn/subversion is s version control system .. it basically tracks each update to a source tree so u can revert to a specific state for example .. pkg with -svn ,-cvs, -bzr, -etc .. is  usually the most bleeding edge version of that software, i.e, it's not released yet .. therefore pkg-svn is an unreleased version of pkg ... in most cases there should be no issue so if you just need extra functionality not provided by the offially released versioin or u just wanna try it out ... then replace the offending pkg on prompt .. i'd recommend sticking to the officially released one though, -svn can be buggy .. hope that made sense

yes, thanks a lot....
So, tryng to install (in my situation) xfburn or ristretto requires some xfce pgks that are still unreleased and conflicts (of course) with the current releases... right??
well thanks a lot, i'm new to arch, but when talking about bleeding edge oriented distro, arch is really that...

sorry for my poor english...
thanks...
jacopo

natalian

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Registered: 2007-09-06

Posts: 29

Re: svn stupid question

I'd say yes, go ahead and upgrade to it ... it most likely depends on functionality not provided by the released versions.