[pacman-dev] [PATCH] New sync1007.py pactest

Nagy Gabor ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu
Mon Jan 14 10:45:45 EST 2008


> I don't think there should be situations when more than one packages
> with replaces=('foobar')
> Replaces are used when a package changed its name (fglrx->catalyst)
> or when developers decided to go with a better alternative
> (cdrtools->cdrkit). If there are more than one replacing package then
> its a packaging error, and pacman shouldn't handle this, so #2 is ok.
> 
And imho multiple repos (testing...) can also lead to problems with #1.
Bye




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