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adamlau

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Registered: 2009-01-30

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Pacman Requests To Installs Lower Versioned Package Oddity?

'-Syu' wants to install truecrypt-6.1a-2 from extras when I already have truecrypt-6.1a-100 installed and visible (-Qi). I version my builds starting from 'pkgrel=100' to prevent the upgrade process from installing what is already installed. '-Syu' is expected to produce:

warning: truecrypt: local (6.1a-100) is newer than extra ( 6.1a-2)

Instead, I must run '-Syu --ignore truecrypt' and receive:

warning: truecrypt: ignoring package upgrade (6.1a-100 => 6.1a-2)

I can deal with pacman warning me about installed packages being newer than what is available in the repos, but truecrypt - and truecrypt alone - wants to install if not set to be ignored. Are there other methods of flagging packages be prevent them from being overwritten?

Last edited by adamlau (2009-02-02 20:53:25)

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pointone

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Registered: 2008-02-21

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Re: Pacman Requests To Installs Lower Versioned Package Oddity?

Hrm... I'm wondering if Pacman is doing a string comparison rather than numerical. Try changing your pkgrel to 999 (or simply 3, for this case) and see if Pacman keeps complaining.

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skottish

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Re: Pacman Requests To Installs Lower Versioned Package Oddity?

If you look at the Arch PKGBUILD, truecrypt has the 'force' option set. I don't know anything about truecrypt, but usually this means that the devs thought that it was imperative that this package gets upgraded.

adamlau

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Re: Pacman Requests To Installs Lower Versioned Package Oddity?

'pkgrel=8' results in the same, unexpected behavior.  Though now the behavior is expected once I examined the ABS PKGBUILD. skottish is spot on, {options=('force')}. Is there an available option to override {options=('force')} flagged packages from the repos?

Last edited by adamlau (2009-02-02 20:55:07)

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tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: Pacman Requests To Installs Lower Versioned Package Oddity?

Yes, --ignore, as adamlau has above.