Pacman keeps trying to upgrade firefox

Every time I run pacman -Syu, pacman wants to update firefox to 2.0.0.10-2, even though I've already updated.
When I query with pacman -Q firefox, it reports that firefox has *not* been updated but remains at 2.0.0.10-1. I can't really tell much from Help / About, which reports a Gecko build date of Nov. 27. Since I think both revisions came out on the same day, I don't know if I'm running -1 or -2.
How can I stop this strange behavior?
Thanks.
Last edited by dhave (2007-11-28 07:02:28)

dhave wrote:
Every time I run pacman -Syu, pacman wants to update firefox to 2.0.0.10-2, even though I've already updated.
When I query with pacman -Q firefox, it reports that firefox has *not* been updated but remains at 2.0.0.10-1. I can't really tell much from Help / About, which reports a Gecko build date of Nov. 27. Since I think both revisions came out on the same day, I don't know if I'm running -1 or -2.
How can I stop this strange behavior?
Thanks.
Here is what is happening to me:
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.
Targets: firefox-2.0.0.10-2
Total Package Size: 9.36 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
checking package integrity... done.
cleaning up... done.
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [#########################################] 100%
(1/1) upgrading firefox [#########################################] 100%
Note that nothing got downloaded ... so the installed version after this download failure will correctly show that I am still at version 2.0.0.10-1:
pacman -Qi firefox
Name : firefox
Version : 2.0.0.10-1
If a pacman query showed anything other than version 2.0.0.10-1, then I'd have two problems instead of just one.
Finally, just as more verification of the weirdness, the pacman logs show this after a successful upgrade to v2.0.0.10-1 and two 'phantom' upgrades to v2.0.0.10-2:
[2007-11-27 21:11] synchronizing package lists
[2007-11-27 21:11] starting full system upgrade
[2007-11-27 21:12] upgraded firefox (2.0.0.9-1 -> 2.0.0.10-1) <------ Successful upgrade to 2.0.0.10-1
[2007-11-28 04:14] synchronizing package lists
[2007-11-28 04:14] starting full system upgrade
[2007-11-28 04:14] upgraded firefox (2.0.0.10-1 -> 2.0.0.10-1) <------ 'Phantom' upgrade to 2.0.0.10-2
[2007-11-28 04:15] synchronizing package lists
[2007-11-28 04:15] starting full system upgrade
[2007-11-28 04:16] upgraded firefox (2.0.0.10-1 -> 2.0.0.10-1) <------ 'Phantom' upgrade to 2.0.0.10-2

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