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KaoDome

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From: Spain

Registered: 2008-12-30

Posts: 38

[NOT REALLY] Pacman recognizes an update which is not an update.

Hi, I've updated and compiled myself the packages for the MinGW32 system and installed them. The packages were:  mingw32-binutils (from 2.19.1 to 2.20.1), mingw32-runtime (from 3.15.2 to 3.18), mingw32-w32api (from 3.13 to 3.14) and mingw32-gcc (from 4.4.0 to 4.4.3).

The first 3 packages are recognized correctly by pacman when trying to update the system, telling me that they are newer than in community, but pacman thinks that mingw32-gcc is newer in community and treats it as an update.

Why is that? Is it an bug in pacman itself?

Last edited by KaoDome (2010-03-10 13:17:29)

lolilolicon

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Registered: 2009-03-05

Posts: 1,722

Re: [NOT REALLY] Pacman recognizes an update which is not an update.

http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/communi … k/PKGBUILD
Note:

options=(!strip force)

force
               Force the package to be upgraded by a pacman system upgrade operation, even if the
               version number would normally not trigger such an upgrade. This is useful when the
               version numbering scheme of a package changes (or is alphanumeric). See pacman(8) for
               more information on version comparisons.

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KaoDome

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From: Spain

Registered: 2008-12-30

Posts: 38

Re: [NOT REALLY] Pacman recognizes an update which is not an update.

@lolilolicon: Oh! Thank you! I din't know about that .