On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:23:03 -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
With 3.5.0 out, we no longer recognize the "force" option in PKGBUILDs; this has been replaced by the 'epoch' variable. What you need to know:
* If you've never forced a package upgrade, don't go introducing epoch. * Default epoch is 0. * If you've ever used 'force' in a package (even if it isn't there now!), you should probably set epoch to 1 next time you build the package.
Could you explain why this would be needed? If the force flag was removed the current version is probably higher than any of the previous.
* Each time you increment epoch, it will completely and utterly outrank any previous version of the package. Make sure this is what you want. * epoch should be seen as a last resort.
-- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre