Locally compiled is newer than extra

Foucault · 2010-04-07 20:03:39

Hello everyone! New Arch convert and really like it so far. I hope I'm posting in the right subforum.

I use gnuplot a lot but I noticed that the version in extra is 4.2.6 whereas the latest is 4.4.0 (link). So I followed the instructions regarding ABS from here, copied over the PKGBUILD from /var/abs/extra/gnuplot/PKGBUILD to ~/abs/gnuplot/, edited it to add the lua dependency and built it according to the information in the wiki with makepkg -s. Finally I installed it with

pacman -U gnuplot-4.4.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

However, after that, everytime I run an update with pacman it complains that:

warning: gnuplot: local (4.4.0-1) is newer than extra (4.2.6-2)

which is logical, I suppose, since my package is newer than the one in the repo anyway.

My question is: Should I care about the warning? Is there something that needs to be fixed? Finally, if extra ever gets version eg. 4.6.0 will it update normally? I searched around the forum a bit but most similar problems were about out-of-sync mirrors. Is there any solution for local packages?

Thank you!

wonder · 2010-04-07 20:10:45

you don't need to be worried about it since you know what you did. there is nothing to fix. when extra will by updated to a version that is higher than yours, it will update to that version because it has the same name.

your solution for local packages is the proper one.

Foucault · 2010-04-07 20:17:22

I see! Thanks for the quick answer.

toffyrn · 2010-04-08 08:03:35

KUDOS for using ABS without any problem after 3 posts

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#1 2010-04-07 20:03:39

Locally compiled is newer than extra

#2 2010-04-07 20:10:45

Re: Locally compiled is newer than extra

#3 2010-04-07 20:17:22

Re: Locally compiled is newer than extra

#4 2010-04-08 08:03:35

Re: Locally compiled is newer than extra

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