[arch] pacman: warning forced upgrade?

[Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino]

On Mon 2007-08-06 03:47 , Andrew Fyfe wrote:
> _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.

> 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

IMHO it is not a good idea, if pacman thinks that 1.4.7 is newer than
1.4.7a, then pkgver should be changed to 1.4.7.a , and force=y
shouldn't be used; force=y should be used to force downgrades only.
My 2 cents,

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