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 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