On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
I just took these for a spin....
allan@mugen /home/arch/code/pacman (epoch)
sudo ./src/pacman/pacman -Syu <snip>
Targets (24): blas-3.2.2-2 crafty-23.3-1 db-4.8.26-2 foomatic-db-4.0.5_20100816-1 foomatic-filters-4.0.5_20100816-1 foomatic-db-engine-4.0.5_20100816-1 ghostscript-9.00-1 gsfonts-1.0.7pre44-2 imagemagick-6.6.4.3-1 libffi-3.0.9-1 libimobiledevice-1.0.3-1 libraw1394-2.0.5-1 libshout-2.2.2-3 libvdpau-0.4-1 sqlite3-3.7.3-1 qt-4.7.0-3 rasqal-0.9.20-1 redland-1.0.11-1 soundconverter-1.5.3-4 tdb-1.2.1-2 ttf-liberation-1.06.0.20100721-1 vim-runtime-7.3.3-2 vim-7.3.3-2 vte-0.26.0-4
Total Download Size: 37.54 MB Total Installed Size: 264.40 MB ...
So these are all the packages on your system with force flag ? Maybe now would be a good time to review which of those really need force flag, drop it if it has been unnecessary for a while. Then if upstream mess up version again or for next need of downgrade, start using epoch. Btw this problem happens just once , right ? After this first reinstall of force package, epoch gets written to local database and then it's fine ?