On 03/15/13 at 02:40am, Allan McRae wrote:
On 15/03/13 00:30, Dave Reisner wrote:
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:37:10PM -0700, Connor Behan wrote:
Calling pacman -Sp and pacman -Sup are guaranteed not to install a package.
I feel the need to point out that --ignore guarantees that a package won't even be *downloaded*. Xyne already mentioned it, but I'll parrot his concern about this effectively changing command line API.
Where do you get that guarantee? All the documentation says is:
Instructs pacman to ignore any upgrades for this package when performing a --sysupgrade.
So I am not even sure Xyne's example is valid, based purely on what this is documented to do... -Sp is not an --sysupgrade operation, and this patch specifically keeps --ignore for -Sup operations.
So... to understand what people think pacman _should_ do, if "foo" (in group "bar") is in IgnorePkg:
"-Sup" should not print a URL for foo (not up for debate...)
"-Sp foo" should print a URL for foo (currently does not).
What should "-Sp bar" print? From what is currently documented, it is not a --sysupgrade, so IgnorePkg should not have an effect. From what currently happens, it should not print a "foo" URL.
Allan
"-Sp bar" should print a URL for foo. A sysupgrade is very different from syncing or removing a group, so IgnorePkg should only ignore upgrades not remove the package from group operations. The fact that IgnorePkg is applied to any operations other than sysupgrade is a bug. In fact, --ignore and IgnorePkg have no effect on removal which creates an odd disparity between syncing and removing groups. apg