[SOLVED] yaourt -Syua wants to update a package which hasn't changed

Question

I built a modest package, vi-vim-symlink, tested it extensively with pacman, and then uploaded it to AUR.
Recently some user reported that every time he runs yaourt, the package wants to be reinstalled.  I installed yaourt and confirmed this behavior:
gecko:~~$ yaourt -Syua
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
Foreign packages: | 4 / 4
==> Package upgrade only (new release):
aur/vi-vim-symlink 1-1 1 -> 1
==> Continue upgrade ? [Y/n]
==> [V]iew package detail [M]anually select packages
==> --------------------------------------------------
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?  The package is super simple and only creates a couple of symlinks, uninstalling vi, if necessary.
Last edited by pgoetz (2014-04-25 21:33:06)

Answer 1

HalosGhost wrote:For starters, that pkgdesc is huge for no reason at all. Also, does that package actually work? Those symlinks don't look valid at all.
The package definitely works (I'm using it on several machines).  The pkgdesc is lengthy because it's kind of an odd package, so I tried to explain the reason for it's existence. (This came after a lengthy forum discussion on the issue of most linux users expecting /usr/bin/vi and /usr/bin/view to actually be vim, and not Bill Joy vi.)  If I were just packaging bottle.py or something like this my pkgdesc would be short.
Do you see anything which is an actual violation of the Arch Packaging Standards?
I'm still not entirely sure what this means or how this happened.
Looks like the source tarball was repackaged without having been sync'd
AUR wouldn't let me upload the package without a url; first I added a random url (one of my servers), then changed my mind and used the vim url -- this must have been when things got out of whack.