[arch-general] Pacman Error: upgrading to same package version again & again

[Nagy Gabor]

> Hi,
> Pacman is acting weird.
> Its asking me to upgrade same set of packages over & over. Even, I have just 
> updated said packages.I posted my query on forums[1] but helpful reply. So 
> posting it here:
 
Check /var/lib/pacman/local/, you will probably find many duplicated
entries there. Then you should manually remove the older entries.

(This is probably caused by backup or buggy third party scripts. Next
major pacman release will catch duplicated database entries and warn
the user.)

Bye