21 Nov
2007
21 Nov
'07
6:32 p.m.
I'll just say this - I didn't even know this op existed, and looking at it, I'm still not even all that clear on what it does... looks to be the same functionality as saying 'no' to the "local package is up to date" question.
Are we sure that's what it does? That's not how I read it's description in the man page. I'm guessing you could use it if you had downloaded a repo locally to a usbkey/cd (think broadband at work/school, dialup at home). You could then change to that directory and do a pacman -F *.pkg.tar.gz to update preexisting packages and not end up installing them all instead. Dale