On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:05:18PM +0100, Rubin wrote:
> Hey All,
> 
> When I execute pacman -Syu, pacman wants to "upgrade" the installed
> wpa_supplicant 0.5.1-35 (my own package)to the version in current,
> wpa_supplicant 0.4.7-2. I've attached the PKGBUILD of my wpa_supplicant
> so you can see I'm not doing anything weird there.
> 
> I'm pretty new to Arch, so my initial thought was that maybe pacman
> doesn't allow you to just replace packages with your own version, but
> then again, this does not become apparent from using pacman -Syu.
> 
> You can work around this by stating IgnorePkg=wpa_supplicant in
> pacman.conf, but this is obviously not the real solution.
> 
> Running pacman with verbose flag does not result in any additional
> information.
> 
> Arch Linux 0.7.1, Pacman 2.9.8.
> 
> Bug report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/3987
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> 
> Rubin.

This is a very straightforward case.  The 0.4.7-2 was a forced downgrade,
because of that pacman wants to replace your package with the older
version.

http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/network/wpa_supplicant/PKGBUILD?rev=1.4&cvsroot=Current&only_with_tag=CURRENT&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

See the force variable.  We'd never really thought of this case when
adding that feature...

Jason

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