[arch-general] deps not being properly recognized?

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Andrei Thorp<garoth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of Sat Jun 20 21:37:11 -0400 2009:
>> Caleb Cushing wrote:
>> > I can't figure out why pacman thinks that deps aren't being fulfilled.
>> >
>> > Targets (1): perl-datetime-0.50-1
>> > <snip>
>> > :: perl-datetime-format-strptime: requires perl-datetime>=0.4304
>> >
>>
>> 50  is not >= 4304
>>
>> Allan
>
> Hmm. That's kind of unfortuante. Chances are, .5x is actually meant to be
>  greater than the .4xxx. Guess the best you can do is force it? :S

Yeah some people do terrible things with version numbers. They are NOT
decimal numbers, they are independent numbers joined by dots.

You can do pacman -Ud to skip dep checks if you're sure the deps are good.