[arch-general] warning: foobar: local (1.0.0-2) is newer than community (1.0.0-1)

Jan Alexander Steffens jan.steffens at gmail.com
Sat Jan 17 12:23:40 UTC 2015


On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> Regarding to my AUR cache [1], it seems to be common practise, that
> packages that moved from AUR to community get a lower "pkgrel="-value.
> IMO that is very annoying and doesn't make sense. I don't want to
> reinstall software that does work and I dislike to get tons of warnings.
> Why is this the common approach?

Resetting the pkgrel is indeed wrong. pkgrel should be bumped when
moving to [community], and that has been my habit when moving packages
from the AUR.


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