[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Remove -F/--freshen operation

[Dan McGee]

On Nov 21, 2007 1:47 PM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:32:33PM -0500, Dale Blount wrote:
> >
> > > 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 sure that's not what it does. It does as described in the man page, or as
> I tried to explain a few posts above.
>
> > 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.
> >
> >
>
> I see, that's useful in that case indeed. I'm probably lucky I never had to
> do that.
> But if you downloaded the whole repo, you will also have the db.tar.gz,
> right? So you can always extract that, and then use -Su. But that's less
> nice.
> /me thinks ..

Make a DB in that case- thats what repo-add is for. Sync repos
actually allow you to resolve dependencies anyway.

Executive decision has been made- I'm killing this (and a lot of
others signed off). I can't think of a use case where creating a sync
DB won't solve the problem. Think of it this way- if you want it to
stay, you'll have to justify it like you submitted it in a patch. :)

-Dan