[pacman-dev] [PATCH 0/5] RFC: epoch implementation

[Dan McGee]

Hey guys,

This is a quick set of patches to implement the use of epoch in our packages,
and remove the 'force' option. It adds a lot more flexibility and should prevent
weird upgrade/downgrade interaction between different repositories, and also
removes the need to munge versions as often.

The pacman stuff is pretty well tested via the current suite of pactests,
although we will want to add some new tests specifically playing with the epoch
value in the test packages.

Anyway, thoughts/comments/suggestions welcome. The changes are not too invasive
and the only real complexity comes from trying to remain backward and forward
compatible.

This addresses bugs such as FS#14887, FS#19153, FS#19639 along with many a
conversation we've had in the past on this list.

-Dan

Dan McGee (5):
  Add epoch support to pacman/libalpm
  Update documentation to reflect new epoch package variable
  Make repo-add and makepkg epoch-aware
  Add epoch support to pactest
  Update contrib/ for epoch

 contrib/PKGBUILD.vim     |   10 ++++++++--
 contrib/bacman           |    3 +++
 doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt       |   22 ++++++++++++----------
 doc/pacman.8.txt         |    3 +++
 lib/libalpm/alpm.h       |    2 +-
 lib/libalpm/be_files.c   |   16 +++++++++++++---
 lib/libalpm/be_package.c |    2 ++
 lib/libalpm/package.c    |   24 ++++++++++++++----------
 lib/libalpm/package.h    |    2 +-
 scripts/makepkg.sh.in    |    6 ++----
 scripts/repo-add.sh.in   |    7 ++++++-
 test/pacman/pmdb.py      |   18 +++++++-----------
 test/pacman/pmpkg.py     |    5 +++--
 test/pacman/util.py      |    4 ++++
 14 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)

-- 
1.7.3.1