[arch-general] howto remove old package version

[Eli Schwartz]

On 11/12/2016 02:59 PM, Damjan Georgievski via arch-general wrote:
>> pacman -Syu
>> :: Starting full system upgrade...
>>
>> warning: mesa: local (13.0.0rc2-2) is newer than extra (12.0.3-3.1)
>> warning: mesa-libgl: local (13.0.0rc2-2) is newer than extra (12.0.3-3.1)
>>
>> how do i remove old version and install new with pacman,
>> have tried pacman -R but had dependency problems.
> 
> you should've mentioned that this is ArchLinux Arm
> 
> and yes, they reverted those packages (at leat on armv6 for
> raspberrypi) I dunno why, don't even care
> 
> 
> 

That is why the epoch was created, why on earth aren't they using it?

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Eli Schwartz