[pacman-dev] Misleading info when epoch is used

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On 07.12.2010 23:51, Nagy Gabor wrote:
> $ sudo pacman -Su
> warning: supertuxkart: local (0.6.2a-2) is newer than community (0.7rc1-1)
>
> What? First I thought that our vercmp code is buggy, but vercmp
> binary worked as expected. Then I figured out that my local package has
> epoch=1, but the epoch is unset on the community package (so this seems
> to be a packager bug).
>
> So the above message is simply misleading (probably this is not the
> only one). It would be better to switch to a default version printing:
> "0.6.2a-2 [epoch=1]", or "1#0.6.2a-2" etc.
>
> In fact I don't like neither force nor epoch. Epoch is just a version
> prefix, why don't we let the packager to workaround this (KISS)? We can
> introduce a new separator (now we have one: '.'), for example '#', and
> let the packager define his favourite pkgversion (maybe epoch in mind),
> like "1#0.6.2a-2". Epoch just complicates code and leads to "wtf"
> imho...
>
> NG
>
>
I'm the packager of supertuxkart and I don't see what exactly went
wrong. I'm not using any funny options in the PKGBUILD. I realize that I
can fix your issue with options=(force) but is this an issue for
everyone or just you due to something you did?

-- Sven-Hendrik