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FS#43487 - [ncurses] upgrading from 5.9_20141101-1 to 5.9-7 has to be done manually because epoch is missing
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Opened by Wieland Hoffmann (Mineo) - Saturday, 17 January 2015, 13:06 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 17 January 2015, 13:16 GMT
Opened by Wieland Hoffmann (Mineo) - Saturday, 17 January 2015, 13:06 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 17 January 2015, 13:16 GMT
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DetailsDescription: According to vercmp 5.9_20141101-1 5.9-7, the latter is actually a lower version number than the first one, which means that pacman will not perform this upgrade automatically and if you do it manually will print a warning about a package downgrade. We have a working method to deal with this, epoch values which are "useful when the version numbering scheme of a package changes" (which is exactly what happened here).
Steps to reproduce: Install ncurses 5.9_20141101-1 pacman -Su warning: ncurses: local (5.9_20141101-1) is newer than core (5.9-7) no upgrade will by performed |
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Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) -
Saturday, 17 January 2015, 13:16 GMT
That package never made it out of [testing]. Arch testing users are expected to handle this themselves.