pacman and vercmp issue

lucak3 · 2010-10-04 12:57:17

I compiled libvdpau 0.4.1 pulling the PKGBUILD from ABS and updating it.
Now that i try to update the system with pacman -Syu, pacman insists on wanting to reinstall 0.4, even if it's older!
What I do not understand is that vercmp 0.4 0.4.1 gives correctly -1.
If the problem has already been reported, could someone post the link? I couldn't find it.

wonder · 2010-10-04 13:12:27

libvdpau 0.4 has a force option in PKGBUILD

the differences between libvdpau 0.4 and 0.4.1 are only documentation clarifications. nothing more

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/libvdpau/log/

Last edited by wonder (2010-10-04 13:13:45)

lucak3 · 2010-10-04 13:21:23

I wasn't trying to force you to upgrade the package, i'm not the reporter...
I just didn't understand why pacman behaved so.
Thank you
P.S. is there a way to ignore or even better notify during the update with pacman of those flags like 'force'?

wonder · 2010-10-04 13:35:43

i didn't considered you were asking for an update. i'm just saying is useless to update in your system to 0.4.1.

to ignore that, add it in pacman.conf, Ignorepkg

tomk · 2010-10-04 14:31:22

If you want pacman to tell you when a package version has been forced, submit a feature request. If you can include a patch to implement it, that would be even better.

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pacman and vercmp issue

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Re: pacman and vercmp issue

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Re: pacman and vercmp issue

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Re: pacman and vercmp issue

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