Yay thinks local packages are newer than AUR (they are not)

[rey_one]

Hi there,

when updating with yay I get the notification that some local packages are newer than AUR, but they are not.

How can I resolve this, force upgrading?

Thanks!

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 endeavouros is up to date
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Searching AUR for updates...
:: Searching databases for updates...
 -> Packages not in AUR: grub-tools  grub2-theme-endeavouros
 -> paper-icon-theme: local (1.5.0.832.aa3e8af-1) is newer than AUR (1.5.0-3)
 -> prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin: local (2.6.0.rc1-2) is newer than AUR (2.6.0-1)
 there is nothing to do

[dalto]

You can solve it with:

yay -S paper-icon-theme prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin

@rey_one

but they are not.

Those packages have higher versions even if they are not actually newer. That doesn’t usually happen unless a mistake was made or the versioning changed.

[rey_one]

Hi dalto thanks for your reply, e.g.:

yay -S prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin

This downloads the prusa release candidate 1 again, instead of the latest full release 2.6:

[reinhold@matterhorn ~]$ LANG=C yay -S prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin 
AUR Explicit (1): prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin-2.6.0-1
:: PKGBUILD up to date, skipping download: prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin
  1 prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin            (Build Files Exist)
==> Packages to cleanBuild?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> A
:: Deleting (1/1): /home/reinhold/.cache/yay/prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin
HEAD is now at c768579 bump to rc1
Removing PrusaSlicer-2.6.0.rc1.AppImage
Removing prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin-2.6.0.rc1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
  1 prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin            (Build Files Exist)
==> Diffs to show?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> 
==> Making package: prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin 2.6.0.rc1-2 (So 23 Jul 2023 15:43:25 CEST)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading PrusaSlicer-2.6.0.rc1.AppImage...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100 78.2M  100 78.2M    0     0  20.1M      0  0:00:03  0:00:03 --:--:-- 24.1M
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    PrusaSlicer-2.6.0.rc1.AppImage ... Passed
:: (1/1) Parsing SRCINFO: prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin
==> Making package: prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin 2.6.0.rc1-2 (So 23 Jul 2023 15:43:31 CEST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found PrusaSlicer-2.6.0.rc1.AppImage
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    PrusaSlicer-2.6.0.rc1.AppImage ... Passed
==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory...
==> Extracting sources...
==> Starting prepare()...
squashfs-root/PrusaSlicer.desktop
squashfs-root/usr/bin/resources/icons/PrusaSlicer_128px.png
squashfs-root/usr/bin/resources/icons/PrusaSlicer_192px.png
squashfs-root/usr/bin/resources/icons/PrusaSlicer_32px.png
squashfs-root/usr/bin/resources/icons/PrusaSlicer-gcodeviewer_128px.png
squashfs-root/usr/bin/resources/icons/PrusaSlicer-gcodeviewer_192px.png
squashfs-root/usr/bin/resources/icons/PrusaSlicer-gcodeviewer_32px.png
==> Sources are ready.
==> Making package: prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin 2.6.0.rc1-2 (So 23 Jul 2023 15:43:34 CEST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
==> Tidying install...
  -> Removing libtool files...
  -> Purging unwanted files...
  -> Removing static library files...
  -> Compressing man and info pages...
==> Checking for packaging issues...
==> Creating package "prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin"...
  -> Generating .PKGINFO file...
  -> Generating .BUILDINFO file...
  -> Generating .MTREE file...
  -> Compressing package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin 2.6.0.rc1-2 (So 23 Jul 2023 15:43:39 CEST)
==> Cleaning up...
loading packages...
warning: prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin-2.6.0.rc1-2 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin-2.6.0.rc1-2

Total Installed Size:  78,27 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       0,00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n
 -> error installing: [/home/reinhold/.cache/yay/prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin/prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin-2.6.0.rc1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst] - exit status 1 

[dalto]

It looks like it is using the old PKGBUILD.

Try rm -rf /home/reinhold/.cache/yay/prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin before you run yay.

[rey_one]

Thank you, that did the trick for both packages!

Funny that I got a warning for downgrading

warning: downgrading package prusa-slicer-gtk2-bin (2.6.0.rc1-2 => 2.6.0-1)