[pacman-dev] REPLACES and FORCE in depends or desc files

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Thu May 22 17:20:10 EDT 2008


Xavier wrote:
> I guess the quickest / easiest fix is to fix db_write to also put
> force / replaces in the desc file, and then have a new 3.1.x release.
> The local database will be slightly messed up but it will go away
> eventually, as upgrade goes.

Wait, that part is irrelevant, I just noticed this change didn't make it 
into 3.1.x, it is just in master, and pacman-git package :)
So just a small patch to push to master and all will be well.




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