[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Fix warning messages when syncing installed package

[Allan McRae]

Xavier wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Allan McRae <mcrae_allan at hotmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> The patch fixes the warning messages when syncing a package where
>> the local version is newer that the db version. Also, all messages
>> are suppressed when using --print-uris and messages about upgrading
>> or reinstalling are suppressed when using --downloadonly
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <mcrae_allan at hotmail.com>
>> ---
>>     
>
> Did you see this :
> http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-June/011994.html ?
> I changed the value of pkg_vercmp to provide more informations.
> I also removed all these messages because I finally found them
> useless. But if you disagree, you might be able to use the more
> detailed result of pkg_vercmp to provide a better output.
>   

Um, no.... I missed that completely. 

I think your version is the much cleaner way to do this.  However, it 
still prints the warning messages ("forcing upgrade" & "is newer than") 
in _alpm_pkg_compare_versions when using --print-uris and --downloadonly.

Allan