[pacman-dev] [PATCH] -Qu rework

[Allan McRae]

Dan McGee wrote:
> 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)
>   

They all look like python rebuilds from [testing].  Are you using a 
local conf file there which has testing disabled?

Allan