On Fri, 28 Oct 2022, Fabian Bornschein wrote:
How is it right now. Are Arch packages build up on AUR packages. For example I release a AUR PKGBUILD with epoch=39, would Arch remove that, reset it to nothing or would Arch keep it?
Thats important because if Arch resets it anyways, the PKGBUILD can stay on the AUR and we shouldnt care what happens on there before release. If Arch however keeps it it should be removed as it is right now, on move to testing.
Hi, I don't know, how aur-helper handle this, but pacman itself does not compare versions of packages in different repositories. It just looks, what repository comes first in /etc/pacman.conf. So if an aur-helper adds an additional [aur] repository in pacman.conf at the end, official packages would always take priority over aur packages. Regarding your first question: I have no idea, but I would assume, that they remove exceedingly high epoch values - but it might also be up to the packages and different from package to package. regards, Erich