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FS#8801 - pacman upgrades firefox package again and again

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Petr Slansky (psl) - Friday, 30 November 2007, 11:39 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Friday, 30 November 2007, 12:15 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.0.6
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
pacman upgrades firefox package again and again. I think that firefox-2.0.0.10-2 is missing in the repository but pacman tries to install it again and again.

Steps to Reproduce:

$ date; sudo pacman -Syu
Fri Nov 30 12:30:51 CET 2007
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.

Targets: firefox-2.0.0.10-2

Total Package Size: 9.36 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
checking package integrity... done.
cleaning up... done.
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [#####################] 100%(1/1)
upgrading firefox [#####################] 100%
$
$ date; sudo pacman -Syu
Fri Nov 30 12:32:12 CET 2007
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.

Targets: firefox-2.0.0.10-2

Total Package Size: 9.36 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
checking package integrity... done.
cleaning up... done.
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [#####################] 100%(1/1)
upgrading firefox [#####################] 100%
$
$ cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg/; ls -l firefox-2.0.0.10*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9817330 2007-11-28 07:28 firefox-2.0.0.10-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
$
$ pacman -V

.--. Pacman v3.0.6 - libalpm v1.0.0
/ _.-' .-. .-. .-. Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
\ '-. '-' '-' '-'
'--'
This program may be freely redistributed under
the terms of the GNU General Public License

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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Friday, 30 November 2007, 12:15 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate

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