Re: [arch-general] Pacman behaviour comparing numerical versions for package upgrades

2012-06-28 Thread Myra Nelson
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Angel Velásquez wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 29/06/12 02:58, Allan McRae wrote: >> On 29/06/12 15:50, Myra Nelson wrote: >>> I have a question about pacman's behaviour regarding packges to >>> be updated. >>> >>> According to < $:

Re: [arch-general] Pacman behaviour comparing numerical versions for package upgrades

2012-06-28 Thread Myra Nelson
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 29/06/12 16:01, martin kalcher wrote: >> Am 29.06.2012 07:58, schrieb Allan McRae: >>> On 29/06/12 15:50, Myra Nelson wrote: >      "Ignoring upgrade from perl-datetime-format-strptime from 1.51-1 to 1.5000-1" No complain

Re: [arch-general] Pacman behaviour comparing numerical versions for package upgrades

2012-06-28 Thread Florian Pritz
On 29.06.2012 07:50, Myra Nelson wrote: > The developer changed his numbering scheme after 1.5000 > to 1.51. In that case you should add epoch=1 to the PKGBUILD. -- Florian Pritz signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Pacman behaviour comparing numerical versions for package upgrades

2012-06-28 Thread Allan McRae
On 29/06/12 16:01, martin kalcher wrote: > Am 29.06.2012 07:58, schrieb Allan McRae: >> On 29/06/12 15:50, Myra Nelson wrote: >>> "Ignoring upgrade from perl-datetime-format-strptime from 1.51-1 >>> to 1.5000-1" >>> >>> No complaints as it's easy to fix, I was just wondering about the >>> rea

Re: [arch-general] Pacman behaviour comparing numerical versions for package upgrades

2012-06-28 Thread Angel Velásquez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/06/12 02:58, Allan McRae wrote: > On 29/06/12 15:50, Myra Nelson wrote: >> 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 pack

Re: [arch-general] Pacman behaviour comparing numerical versions for package upgrades

2012-06-28 Thread martin kalcher
Am 29.06.2012 07:58, schrieb Allan McRae: On 29/06/12 15:50, Myra Nelson wrote: 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 You can also use pacman -Su to upgrade all packages that are out of date.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 upgr

Re: [arch-general] Pacman behaviour comparing numerical versions for package upgrades

2012-06-28 Thread Allan McRae
On 29/06/12 15:50, Myra Nelson wrote: > 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 >

[arch-general] Pacman behaviour comparing numerical versions for package upgrades

2012-06-28 Thread 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 upgradin

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia/vesafb/GRUB2

2012-06-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> No, it supports the vesa standard. All cards do. But that's completely > different > from vesafb, a linux driver. Your right and you cleared up the confusion somewhbut that's a little unfair. I believe all cards MUST support VESA. The vesafb driver isn't supported directly but it uses the VESA