FS#2463 - pacman -Syu misses moved packages

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Joshua Rubin (miasma) - Monday, 28 March 2005, 20:02 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

When a package is moved from one repo, call it RepoA, to another, call it RepoB, and the release number is incremented, paman does not recognize the new, higher numbered
package with a "pacman -Syu" until the user manually goes and removes the directory /var/lib/pacman/RepoA/{package-name}.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 11 June 2006, 18:10 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 11 June 2006, 18:10 GMT
This is by design, pacman installs the package found in the first repository it is in, unless specified with a pacman -S current/packagename.

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