[arch-general] How to download .sigs into CacheDir with pacman

[Allan McRae]

On 23/03/12 03:05, Dennis 'Gyroplast' Herbrich wrote:
> Greetings everyone!
> 
> I am constructing a local, common repository of packages aggregated from
> core, extra and community, named 'default' for discussion's sake. This
> local repository shall be a "frozen" state of a (virtual) machine's
> package installation, to ensure a common package status across all
> machines which are using this local repository to upgrade. The idea behind
> this is to setup an internally tested "baseline" or "stable release"
> repository for certain clients.
> 
> Basically, I want to shove 'pacman -Q' output into my magic bash script on
> my personal testing machine where all necessary updates are installed, and
> have a shiny repository ready for use fall out at the end. This is working
> nicely already, except for one thing that bothers me greatly:
> 
> I haven't found a way to reliably download the official package signature
> files along with the packages themselves through creative use of pacman. I
> do not REALLY want to fetch the .sig files in another step from the mirror
> I am using, as that'd require me to construct package FILE names myself
> instead of just throwing pacman a "core/filesystem=2012.2-2" and let
> pacman figure out my architecture and download location. I DO want to have
> package signing available for my local copy, though.
> 
> Is there a way to grab the .sig files along with the package files with
> pacman, and place them somewhere neat as the CacheDir, for instance?
> 
> Any help or ideas are appreciated!
> 


pacman -U http://....   downloads signature files automatically if present.

Allan