[arch-general] Error message on mkinitcpio

[Tomás Acauan Schertel]

I still got error message after using packages from [testing].
Am I doing something wrong??


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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 22:46, Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think we may have this fixed in pacman-git, but Nagy or Xavier would
> > know for sure...
> >
>
> That documentation from man PKGBUILD still applies, I don't think we
> ever considered it as a bug/problem :
>
>       replaces (array)
>           An array of packages that this package should replace, and
> can be used to handle renamed/combined packages. For example, if the
>           j2re package is renamed to jre, this directive allows
> future upgrades to continue as expected even though the package has
>           moved. Sysupgrade is currently the only pacman operation
> that utilizes this field, a normal sync will not use its value.
>
> But now I am wondering if replaces could imply conflicts/provides.
> Implicit fields means less control and power to the user/packager though.
>