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R00KIE

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[Solved] Pacman version handling

Hello, I know the title isn't very descriptive but it is hard to resume the problem with a short line.
I have found something I find strange about version handling of pacman. I wanted to give xorg-server 1.6 a try so I have enabled [testing], after upgrading xorg-server, libdrm, libgl and a few other packages I have disable [testing] so I could keep updating everything else from the other repos.

When doing pacman -Syu, pacman warns that xorg-server and most other packages are more recent than the ones in the repos but it continues updating but for libdrm it goes postal, instead of just warning that libdrm is more recent and continue to update I guess it tries to actually downgrade it and then everything fails because libgl needs the version on [testing].

If I do (with testing disabled) "pacman -Syu --ignore libdrm" then it warns some packages are more recent than the ones in the repos, and that it is ignoring libdrm and all goes well. Am I missing something here or is there a problem with pacman version handling?

It tries to downgrade from libdrm 2.4.6 to libdrm 2.3.1 .... all other packages have a version like x.y and libdrm has a version like x.y.z ... maybe pacman gets confused ...

Last edited by R00KIE (2009-04-10 15:54:31)

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Allan

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Re: [Solved] Pacman version handling

libdrm in [extra] has "options=('force')" in the PKGBUILD so pacman is forcing the download.

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R00KIE

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Re: [Solved] Pacman version handling

OH!!! Ok that explains it
One more thing I have learned today

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