On 2013-07-13 16:10, Richard Schwab wrote:
Hi there,
today I noticed that there was a newer PKGBUILD for the package
ponymix-git
available, because I noticed an update in the package on another
system.
After that I wondered why I didn't see an update notification in cower
and
noticed that the package version I had installed was recognized as
greater
version number than the new version.
[2013-07-13 16:48] [PACMAN] downgraded ponymix-git (20130329-1 ->
1.2.g60328ca-1)
After seeing that I contacted the maintainer and asked him to add an
epoch
( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#epoch ) to the PKGBUILD
to have
it recognizing the newer version, but he refused to do so, telling me
he'd be
aware of how the versions are compared and told me to "complain to
every other
maintainer on the AUR that their VCS package needs an epoch".
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ponymix-git/
I mean, the AUR is unsupported, and the maintainer of ponymix-git is
falconcindy. If you don't like it, you can add the epoch to the PKGBUILD
manually and use that, but it seems simpler to just let pacman think
that it's downgrading the package this time and not have to deal with
epochs in the future.
All the best,
-Sam
