[aur-general] Transition users from package x to package y (package x deprecated)

Michael Kogan michael.kogan at gmx.net
Wed Dec 30 20:24:52 UTC 2020


Should those go into the new package or into the deprecated ones or into
all of them? Currently I have conflicts/replaces in all three PKGBUILDs. So
I just exchange replaces with provides in all of them, or I better remove
those fields from some of the PKGBUILDs? Thanks!

Am So., 27. Dez. 2020 um 02:35 Uhr schrieb alad via aur-general <
aur-general at archlinux.org>:

> On 27/12/2020 02:30, alad via aur-general wrote:
> > As mentioned, replace does nothing at all for AUR packages (unless you
> > put them in a local repo).
> >
> > You can add conflicts/replaces though, such that users don't have to
> > manually remove the old package before installing the new one.
> >
> > Alad
>
> ...and I meant conflicts/provides in the last part.
>
> Alad
>


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