I still got error message after using packages from [testing]. Am I doing something wrong?? -- Tomás A. Schertel ---------------------------------------------- Linux Registered User #304838 Arch Linux User http://www.archlinux-br.org/ ---------------------------------------------- On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 22:46, Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I think we may have this fixed in pacman-git, but Nagy or Xavier would > > know for sure... > > > > That documentation from man PKGBUILD still applies, I don't think we > ever considered it as a bug/problem : > > replaces (array) > An array of packages that this package should replace, and > can be used to handle renamed/combined packages. For example, if the > j2re package is renamed to jre, this directive allows > future upgrades to continue as expected even though the package has > moved. Sysupgrade is currently the only pacman operation > that utilizes this field, a normal sync will not use its value. > > But now I am wondering if replaces could imply conflicts/provides. > Implicit fields means less control and power to the user/packager though. >
