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FS#71166 - [dash] and [libedit] Different versions exist in [core] and [extra] repositories

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Paul Clark (pdc) - Monday, 07 June 2021, 19:55 GMT
Last edited by Levente Polyak (anthraxx) - Monday, 07 June 2021, 21:14 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Levente Polyak (anthraxx)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: The latest versions of dah and libedit have been added to the extra repository. The previous versions are still in core. With core placed above extra in /etc/pacman.conf, this prevents the new versions being installed by pacman -Syu.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
dash: 0.5.11.3-1 & 0.5.11.4-1
libedit: 20210419_3.1-1 & 20210522_3.1-1

Steps to reproduce:

Update system with

# pacman -Syu

then

$ pacman -Ss '\bdash\b'
core/dash 0.5.11.3-1 [installed]
POSIX compliant shell that aims to be as small as possible
extra/dash 0.5.11.4-1 [installed: 0.5.11.3-1]
POSIX compliant shell that aims to be as small as possible

$ pacman -Ss '\blibedit\b'
core/libedit 20210419_3.1-1 [installed]
Command line editor library providing generic line editing, history, and tokenization functions
extra/libedit 20210522_3.1-1 [installed: 20210419_3.1-1]
Command line editor library providing generic line editing, history, and tokenization functions
community/linenoise-ng 1.0.1-1
A small self-contained alternative to readline and libedit that supports UTF-8 and Windows
This task depends upon

Closed by  Levente Polyak (anthraxx)
Monday, 07 June 2021, 21:14 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed

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