[pacman-dev] Errors while KDE 4.6 upgrading

Pierre Schmitz pierre at archlinux.de
Thu Jan 27 09:52:07 EST 2011


On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:42:36 +0100, Andrea Scarpino wrote:
> On Thursday 27 January 2011 13:31:19 Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>> They do. And to make sure I just added a specific test to prove it. I
>> assume dbscripts weren't used here.
> I removed the packages from pool/ to get it working.
> 
> I know this was wrong, but there was no need to bump pkgrel in this case 
> because kde-meta was already in [kde-unstable] and only [extra] users would 
> have installed it.
> 
> Will not happen again.

Rule of thumb: never change a package without bumping the pkgrel
And: don't try to cheat dbscripts. If it tells you something is wrong
it is most likely right.

So, please update that package and bump the pkgrel (note: use an
integer and not an decimal). It just an empty package anyway.

-- 
Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre


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