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robin67

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From: the Netherlands

Registered: 2012-02-18

Posts: 45

[SOLVED] pacman warns for for older packages

Today I got this information after executing pacman -Syu as I regular do ;-)

  warning: monit: local (5.22.0-1) is newer than community (5.21.0-2)
  warning: ntp: local (4.2.8.p10-1) is newer than extra (4.2.8.p9-2)

My current packages are newer as the one provided to me ...
I am using the latest version of the mirrorlist, just using some dutch located servers:
  Server = https://mirror.i3d.net/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
  Server = https://mirror.nl.leaseweb.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
  Server = https://archlinux.mirror.wearetriple.com/$repo/os/$arch

How can something like this happen ? First time I have this after years of Archlinux

Last edited by robin67 (2017-04-24 20:07:18)

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman warns for for older packages

I had the same thing happen with ntp - I assumed it was just due to a broken mirror (the mirror I was using *was* broken, but the ntp issue may be separate).

It looks like it was upgraded in the repos, but the new version was then removed and the old put back in the repos (and flagged outdated).

I suspect it was a problem with the openssl update requiring the rebuild.

EDIT: actually, the new version was pushed to the repos a few weeks ago (April 1 ... I'll assume they'd not make it an April fools joke, that'd be a cruel one).  But given the large number of package rebuilds required for the ssl update, I suspect an old version may have accidentally been pushed to the repo rather than the new rebuild.  Give it a bit, I'm sure the devs will fix it up.

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,561

Re: [SOLVED] pacman warns for for older packages

These are legit bugs now. The maintainers didn't pay attention that there was a rebuild in testing and never put the updated versions there. File bug reports.

hkoch

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Registered: 2016-05-10

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman warns for for older packages

Is there any workaround while we're waiting for the bug report to be acknowledged / processed?

Update: never mind - I had 4.2.8.p9-1 in my cache so I just manually downgraded and then updated to the repo version:

pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ntp-4.2.8.p9-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
pacman -Syu

Last edited by hkoch (2017-04-24 18:47:29)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman warns for for older packages

Sure, just downgrade to the versions in Extra/Community

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman warns for for older packages

ntp https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53791 (fixed in 4.2.8.p10-2)
monit https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53784

robin67

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From: the Netherlands

Registered: 2012-02-18

Posts: 45

Re: [SOLVED] pacman warns for for older packages

ntp has already been fixed and is now updated to 4.2.8.p10-2
So I can only assume monit will as well soon... In the meanwhile I downgraded to 5.21.0-2 to get it running again, which works fine

Last edited by robin67 (2017-04-24 20:06:26)