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911Gmta

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Registered: 2026-06-06

Posts: 7

[False Alarm] Dozens of haskell packages never get updated

FALSE ALARM: I'm very sorry, but I now realize that this issue is actually a non-issue. I'm very sorry! Please check my message #3 in this thread for an explanation.

When running pacman -Syu, I repeatedly get shown 184 extra/haskell packages that are listed as needing upgrade. I allow them to be upgraded, they are shown to indeed be upgraded, but the next time I run pacman -Syu, these haskell packages keep getting shown to me as needing upgrade. Apparently, they never get upgraded.

I put IgnorePkg = haskell* into /etc/pacman.conf, and then these 184 haskell packages get listed in warnings that they are being ignored.

However, it's annoying that I always have to view this mass quantity of warnings and that these haskell packages never get upgraded in the first place if I don't ignore them. How can I make sure that these packages do indeed get properly upgraded.

And to be clear, this not-getting-properly-upgraded behavior only occurs with these haskell packages. All other packages which need upgrade always get properly upgraded by pacman -Syu.

Last edited by 911Gmta (Yesterday 16:33:04)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,958

Re: [False Alarm] Dozens of haskell packages never get updated

Please post the output of the following when the packages are not being ignored:

# pacman -Syu --debug

911Gmta

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Registered: 2026-06-06

Posts: 7

Re: [False Alarm] Dozens of haskell packages never get updated

Please post the output of the following when the packages are not being ignored:

# pacman -Syu --debug

Oh! It turns out that this whole issue is a false alarm.

I didn't carefully check the version numbers listed in the 184 packages that seemed to not be upgraded. Now that I have done so, I realize that all of these extra/haskell packages are indeed being upgraded properly, and that they simply are apparently getting upgraded very frequently.

I'm very sorry for this false alarm and for the bandwidth!

Last edited by 911Gmta (Yesterday 16:31:23)

killertofus

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Registered: 2025-02-10

Posts: 190

Re: [False Alarm] Dozens of haskell packages never get updated

pacman -Qs pandoc

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