[arch-general] perl-authen-sasl: local (2.1401-1) is newer than community (2.15-1)

Evangelos Foutras foutrelis at gmail.com
Tue Jul 20 11:27:14 EDT 2010


On 20/07/10 18:14, Damjan Georgievski wrote:
> This is what happens to me now
> # pacman -Syu
> ...
> :: Starting full system upgrade...
> warning: perl-authen-sasl: local (2.1401-1) is newer than community (2.15-1)
>
> I guess this happens because I have installed something from testing
> at one point, and anyway, I know how to override this warningm but..
>
> The question is, should pacman think that 2.1401 is newer than 2.15 ?

Looks like perl-authen-sasl 2.15 should have the 'force' option set. The 
minor version number is going from 1401 to 15, and that causes pacman to 
assume it's an older release.

I posted a bug report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20238.


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