[arch] pacman: warning forced upgrade?

[Andrew Fyfe]

_saiko wrote:
> hi,
> Recently i compiled my own hplip package (ver 2.7.7). Today i tried to 
> perform system upgrade with pacman -Su but there was this *warning: 
> hplip: forcing upgrade to version 1.7.4a-3*.
> For other packages that i have locally newer then in the repos pacman 
> gets me a mere "newer then..." info which is perfectly fine ....
> Is that a hplip package option that forces this or i did something wrong 
> while compiling my package?
> Hopefully someone can help me out here.
> 
> Thanks in advanced
> 
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Yes the upgrade from 1.4.7 to 1.4.7a is forced because pacman's version 
comparison thinks 1.4.7 is newer than 1.4.7a

Add 'IgnorePkg = hplip' to /etc/pacman.conf to stop it upgrading hplip 
when you do 'pacman -Su'

Andrew