[pacman-dev] [PATCH] -Qu rework

[Dan McGee]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:09 AM, Nagy Gabor
>> > <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
>> >> See:
>> >> http://repo.or.cz/w/pacman-ng.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/working
>> >>
>> >> This is a big behavior change (iirc it restores the old behavior).
>> >> Opinions?
>> >>
>> >
>> > This is fine for me. But that means we consider bug 7884 as invalid,
>> > which was opened by Dan. So as I said in the last comment of that
>> > bug, we have to wait for his input :)
>>
>> Damn, this is a huge code cleanup. I like it. I've pulled it into my
>> working branch (the latest version).
>>
>> One thing I noticed and/or thought of- should we make the return
>> status of this command different depending on whether there are
>> upgrades available? That would make this super-easy to wrap in some
>> sort of "up2date" script or something rather than having to parse the
>> output.
>
> This is a good idea. But there is something I missed before my comment
> on FS#11737. The new -Qu ignores replacements. However, my comment
> there has some suggestions (independent from -Qu) which could "fix"
> this. (However this is a minor issue irl, imho)

Hmm, this isn't quite what I expected either. Can we clean up this
garbage in any way?

$ ./src/pacman/pacman -Qu
warning: alsa-lib: local (1.0.17a-2) is newer than extra (1.0.17a-1)
warning: gvim: local (7.2.25-1) is newer than extra (7.1.330-1)
warning: namcap: local (2.1-2) is newer than extra (2.1-1)
warning: openoffice-base: local (3.0.0-3) is newer than extra (3.0.0-2)
warning: pacman-git: local (20081031-1) is newer than pacman-git-64 (20081028-1)
warning: pycairo: local (1.6.4-2) is newer than extra (1.6.4-1)
warning: pygobject: local (2.15.4-2) is newer than extra (2.15.4-1)
warning: pygtk: local (2.13.0-2) is newer than extra (2.13.0-1)
warning: python: local (2.6-2) is newer than extra (2.5.2-5)
warning: python-numeric: local (24.2-3) is newer than extra (24.2-2)
warning: sonata: local (1.5.3-2) is newer than extra (1.5.3-1)
warning: vi: local (7.2.25-1) is newer than core (7.1.330-1)
warning: vim: local (7.2.25-1) is newer than extra (7.1.330-1)
warning: vte: local (0.17.4-2) is newer than extra (0.17.4-1)

-Dan