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BimoZX

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Registered: 2010-03-26

Posts: 116

Local Packages higher than AUR

It's kinda bothering me lately that everytime I "yaourt -Syu --aur"
some of the package
the local database seems to be more up to date than the AUR database

This is the result when I run "yaourt -Syu --aur"

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 archlinuxfr is up to date
 arch-games is up to date
==> Searching for new version on AUR
allblack-icons: up to date
alsaequal: up to date
aptana-studio: up to date
arcadia: up to date (0.8.0-1 flagged as out of date)
archup: up to date
artha: up to date
bin32-wine-suse: up to date
bluej: up to date
caps: up to date
checkgmail-notify-osd: up to date
chromium-browser-bin:  (local=42915-1 aur=LATEST-18)
clearlooks-colors-gtk-theme: up to date
contacts: up to date
couchdb: up to date
d4x: up to date
dates: up to date
ddcxinfo-arch: up to date
desktopcouch-bzr:  (local=143-1 aur=121-1)
dvipng: up to date
echo-icon-theme-git:  (local=20100417-1 aur=20091117-1)
elementary-icons: up to date
evince-gtk: up to date
fbsplash: up to date
fbsplash-scripts: up to date
fbsplash-theme-arch-black: up to date
fbsplash-theme-arch-black-extras: up to date
fbsplash-themes-arch-banner: up to date
furiusisomount: up to date
gdm-arc-colors: up to date
gdm-archfamily: up to date
gdm-old: up to date
gdm-themes: up to date
geany-addons: up to date
geany-plugins: up to date
gedit-classbrowser: up to date
gjots2: up to date
gloobus-preview-bzr: up to date
gmate-git:  (local=20100403-1 aur=20100207-1)
gmpc-git:  (local=20100427-1 aur=20100124-1)
gmpc-plugins-git: up to date
gnome-color-chooser: up to date
gnome-colors-icon-theme: up to date
gnome-globalmenu: up to date
gnome-main-menu: up to date
gnome-mplayer-svn:  (local=1685-1 aur=1647-1)
gnote-git:  (local=20100411-1 aur=20090531-1)
google-chrome-beta: up to date
gpointing-device-settings: up to date
gtg: up to date (0.2.2-2 flagged as out of date)
gtk-elegant-aurora-theme: up to date
gtk-engine-equinox: up to date
gtk-engine-murrine-git:  (local=20100411-1 aur=20100405-1)
gtk-engine-nodoka: up to date
gtk-engine-pixbuf: up to date
gtk-engine-ubuntulooks: up to date
gtk-engines-cleanice: up to date
gtk-nova-theme: up to date
gtk-theme-shiki-colors: up to date
gtk2-theme-newwave: up to date
gtkpacman: up to date
guayadeque: up to date
gwget: up to date
gwibber-trunk-bzr:  (local=703-1 aur=573-2)
hdaps-gl: up to date
humanity-icon-theme: up to date
hwd: up to date
initscripts-extras-fbsplash: up to date
iron: up to date
komodoedit: up to date
kupfer: up to date
lib32-intel-dri: up to date
libdrm-newest: up to date
libjpeg6: up to date
libmicrohttpd: up to date
libmpd-git:  (local=20100427-1 aur=20090525-1)
libpng12: up to date
libpthread-stubs: up to date
libraw: up to date
libslab: up to date
libtracker: not found on AUR
meliae-icons: up to date
mplayer-mt-git:  (local=20100427-1 aur=20100422-1)
nathive: up to date
new-murrine-configurator: up to date
notify-osd: up to date
otf-ipafont: up to date
otf-takao: up to date
pino: up to date
powernowd: up to date
python-couchdb: up to date
python-keybinder: up to date
python-keyring: up to date
python-oauth-svn: up to date
ruby-coderay: up to date
shotwell-svn:  (local=1557-1 aur=1499-1)
simple-ccsm: up to date
somatic-icon-theme: up to date
sonata-svn:  (local=1274-1 aur=1090-1)
splashy-full: up to date
splashy-themes: up to date
swfdec-gnome: up to date
tasque-git:  (local=20100321-1 aur=20100219-1)
tp_smapi: up to date
ttf-droid: up to date
ttf-ipa-mona: up to date
ttf-monapo: up to date
ttf-vlgothic: up to date
ubuntu-mono: up to date
usp2:  (local=470-1 aur=462-1)
wine-doors: up to date
wordnet: up to date
xampp: up to date
xf86-video-intel-newest: up to date
zeitgeist: up to date
zsi: up to date

any enlightenment would be greatly appreciated

n0dix

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 956

Re: Local Packages higher than AUR

Use packer or bauerbill instead yaourt.

evr

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Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 554

Re: Local Packages higher than AUR

with git/svn/bzr packages, the package version from the AUR relates to the latest version when the PKGBUILD was made, while the actual package build compiles the latest version of the software from the git/svn/bzr repo.  It's nothing to worry about, and the expected behavior if you're using those kinds of packages.  The maintainers of the packages in the AUR won't necessarily update the package number unless there are significant changes to the package, as there is no need to.

BimoZX

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Registered: 2010-03-26

Posts: 116

Re: Local Packages higher than AUR

I'll try that

So it'll never update itself?

jwbirdsong

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From: Western KS USA

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 173

Re: Local Packages higher than AUR

So it'll never update itself?

Not the local version number, unless you edit the PKGBUILD to reflect the latest version that is being offered by the RCS (svn/darcs/git..etc)

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BimoZX

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Registered: 2010-03-26

Posts: 116

Re: Local Packages higher than AUR

seems cumbersome if I have to edit the PKGBUILD everytime.

I think packer solved the problem, or at least it doesn't show any warning about any package being newer than the repo except this

warning: gnome-keyring-sharp-svn: local (133722-1) is newer than community (87622-3)

is that something I should worry about?

Trying out pacman wrapper right now, any recommendation?

brisbin33

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From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 1,799

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Re: Local Packages higher than AUR

my wrapper, aurget, has a $development_regex which can be used to catch -git, -svn, etc packages.  these packages aren't warned about newer local versions, aren't included in a normal -Syu, and can be updated all at once with -Syu --devel (yaourt has this, no?).  source files are also kept/reused by default with packages that match the regex.  this can all be customized in its config file.

only drawback: it's an aur helper not a pacman wrapper.  i.e. use pacman for repos and aurget for aur; i just like it better that way.

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BimoZX

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Registered: 2010-03-26

Posts: 116

Re: Local Packages higher than AUR

With the "yaourt -Syu --devel" option, it actually wants to downgrade the package not upgrade it so I was worried about the option.
Yaourt actually takes the aur version rather than the local even though the local version is higher.

But it only happen when I use the "--devel" option though.