On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 29.06.2012 07:50, schrieb Myra Nelson: >> I have a question about pacman's behaviour regarding packges to be updated. >> >> According to < $: man pacman > >> >> You can also use pacman -Su to upgrade all packages that are out of >> date. See Sync Options below. When upgrading, pacman performs version >> comparison to determine which packages need upgrading. > > Dan once told me that pacman uses the same version comparing algorithm > that rpm uses (and deb probably uses the same). Just saying that we > didn't invent it, but it is de-facto standard. > Thanks to everyone for your responses. Allan and Florian cleared up any misconceptions I had. I read the section in <man pacman> about using epoch=1 for such situations but it didn't register, hence my question. I rebuilt the packaged with epoch=1 and the message turned to perl???? local is newer than perl??? repo. @Thomas This is why I love Arch. It helps one learn things that you never would have found out using other distributions. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!
