Hello, following this report #FS17752 (link at [0]) I made a patch to repo-add From 972a5e88df392042d60e5aea1e52e8c5dd113a69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ekardnam <lucabertozzi.pub@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 21:28:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added --dont-downgrade flag to repo-add as stated in issue #17752 --- scripts/repo-add.sh.in | 19 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/repo-add.sh.in b/scripts/repo-add.sh.in index 57413df5..f8748f08 100644 --- a/scripts/repo-add.sh.in +++ b/scripts/repo-add.sh.in @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ REPO_DB_SUFFIX= LOCKFILE= CLEAN_LOCK=0 USE_COLOR='y' +DONT_DOWNGRADE=0 # Import libmakepkg source "$LIBRARY"/util/message.sh @@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ Multiple packages to add can be specified on the command line.\n")" printf -- "$(gettext "Options:\n")" printf -- "$(gettext " -n, --new only add packages that are not already in the database\n")" printf -- "$(gettext " -R, --remove remove old package file from disk after updating database\n")" + printf -- "$(gettext " --dont-downgrade do not add package to database if a newer version is already present\n")" elif [[ $cmd == "repo-remove" ]] ; then printf -- "$(gettext "Usage: repo-remove [options] <path-to-db> <packagename> ...\n")" printf -- "\n" @@ -248,9 +250,17 @@ db_write_entry() { return 0 fi else - if (( RMEXISTING )); then - pkgentry=$(find_pkgentry "$pkgname") - if [[ -n $pkgentry ]]; then + pkgentry=$(find_pkgentry "$pkgname") + if [[ -n $pkgentry ]]; then + + local version=$(sed -n '/^%VERSION%$/ {n;p;q}' "$pkgentry/desc") + if (( "$(vercmp $version $pkgver)" > "0" )); then + warning "$(gettext "A newer version for '%s' is already present in database")" "$pkgname" + if (( DONT_DOWNGRADE )); then + return 0 + fi + fi + if (( RMEXISTING )); then local oldfilename="$(sed -n '/^%FILENAME%$/ {n;p;q;}' "$pkgentry/desc")" local oldfile="$(dirname "$1")/$oldfilename" fi @@ -618,6 +628,9 @@ while (( $# )); do -v|--verify) VERIFY=1 ;; + --dont-downgrade) + DONT_DOWNGRADE=1 + ;; *) args+=("$1") ;; -- 2.19.2 ----------Links and stuff--------------- [0] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17752?project=3 ekardnam