On 27/11/16 12:49, Andrew Gregory wrote: > On 11/27/16 at 10:16am, Allan McRae wrote: >> Issue described on pacman-dev: >> >> The 2nd issue is when people try to upgrade from an older version of >> arduino that provided arduino-builder. It will fail to install as the >> new version says "oh, arduino-builder is already installed". It then >> tries to remove arduino and the arduino-builder dependency is not >> satisfied anymore. This only affects a small number of versions, but >> still raise up on AUR. I am not sure if this got fixed in pacman by now. >> -> To resolve this issue you need to remove arduino first and then >> reinstall it. >> >> >> From what I can see, package A provides B, but in the next update, A and >> B are separate packages. > > The problem doesn't make sense as described; pacman doesn't count > packages being upgraded when doing dependency checks. Is this the > problem tested in sync-update-package-removing-required-provides? >
That test seems to be exactly what is described. So the problem lies elsewhere... Thanks, Allan
