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

[Allan McRae]

I just took these for a spin....


allan at mugen /home/arch/code/pacman (epoch)
 > sudo ./src/pacman/pacman -Syu
<snip>

Targets (24): blas-3.2.2-2  crafty-23.3-1  db-4.8.26-2
               foomatic-db-4.0.5_20100816-1 
foomatic-filters-4.0.5_20100816-1
               foomatic-db-engine-4.0.5_20100816-1  ghostscript-9.00-1
               gsfonts-1.0.7pre44-2  imagemagick-6.6.4.3-1  libffi-3.0.9-1
               libimobiledevice-1.0.3-1  libraw1394-2.0.5-1 
libshout-2.2.2-3
               libvdpau-0.4-1  sqlite3-3.7.3-1  qt-4.7.0-3  rasqal-0.9.20-1
               redland-1.0.11-1  soundconverter-1.5.3-4  tdb-1.2.1-2
               ttf-liberation-1.06.0.20100721-1  vim-runtime-7.3.3-2
               vim-7.3.3-2  vte-0.26.0-4

Total Download Size:    37.54 MB
Total Installed Size:   264.40 MB
...


allan at mugen /home/arch/code/pacman (epoch)
 > pacman -Syu
<snip>

Targets (8): ghostscript-9.00-1  libimobiledevice-1.0.3-1  sqlite3-3.7.3-1
              qt-4.7.0-3  rasqal-0.9.20-1  redland-1.0.11-1
              soundconverter-1.5.3-4  vte-0.26.0-4

Total Download Size:    36.76 MB
Total Installed Size:   159.49 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]



A quick look at the extra packages using the epoch patches shows they 
all appear to have options=('force') and are the same version as already 
on my system.

Allan