[pacman-dev] Misleading info when epoch is used

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On 08.12.2010 00:40, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> On 08/12/10 08:45, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>
>> This is not your fault.   We are working on a better system than
>> options=('force') to a new system using "epoch" values.   This is caused by
>> Nagy installing a package he built using the epoch method and then
>> attempting to update to a package without it.
> He doesn't even have to build it for it to do this- it is the
> automagic %FORCE% -> %EPOCH% translation we started to do. Old
> supertuxkart probably had a force (started being treated as epoch ==
> 1), new one doesn't (epoch == 0), you lose.
>
> http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/community?op=comp&compare[]=%2Fsupertuxkart%2Ftrunk@25176&compare[]=%2Fsupertuxkart%2Ftrunk@34147
>
> -Dan
>
Sorry, I am still confused. Does this mean I should act on this by
re-adding force or will you guys handle this in pacman somehow?

-- Sven-Hendrik