On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Thomas Bächler
Am 29.06.2012 07:50, schrieb Myra Nelson:
I have a question about pacman's behaviour regarding packges to be updated.
According to < $: man pacman >
You can also use pacman -Su to upgrade all packages that are out of date. See Sync Options below. When upgrading, pacman performs version comparison to determine which packages need upgrading.
Dan once told me that pacman uses the same version comparing algorithm that rpm uses (and deb probably uses the same). Just saying that we didn't invent it, but it is de-facto standard.
Thanks to everyone for your responses. Allan and Florian cleared up any misconceptions I had. I read the section in <man pacman> about using epoch=1 for such situations but it didn't register, hence my question. I rebuilt the packaged with epoch=1 and the message turned to perl???? local is newer than perl??? repo. @Thomas This is why I love Arch. It helps one learn things that you never would have found out using other distributions. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!