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Mrs.Columbo

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Registered: 2008-06-18

Posts: 24

[solved] pacman -Syu wants to install older version of a package

Hi,

This is rather a nuissance than an actual problem, but maybe someone knows what i did wrong:
I manually compiled evas-svn doing a makepackage with the pkgbuild from aur. Since its an svn package the versioning is taken from the svn revision. Evas is not the only svn package i manually compiled, actually i did so with all the e17 packages.

Now every time i do a pacman -Su it wants to replace my package with the older one from [community].
Here's a screenshot of pacman -Qs output before and after such an update. The versioning of the manually compiled package seems alright to me, it should not be selected for updating. And as mentioned, other packages - versioned following the same scheme - are not suggested for updating.

Now how can i get rid of that? I dont want to exclude it from updating (i would just forget to remove that as soon as theres really newer packages...and e17 tends not to work anymore in such a case). Also I would like to know what i did wrong

Thanks in advance,
MC.

Last edited by Mrs.Columbo (2010-03-29 16:17:25)

brisbin33

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From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

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Re: [solved] pacman -Syu wants to install older version of a package

options=(... 'force')

that's why.  you'll have to add it to IgnorePkg or contact the maintainer about getting the 'force' removed.

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Mrs.Columbo

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Registered: 2008-06-18

Posts: 24

Re: [solved] pacman -Syu wants to install older version of a package

Wow, thanks for pointing that out so quickly.

MC.