[pacman-dev] Is -Suu supposed to also update packages?

[Cedric Staniewski]

Xavier wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Cedric Staniewski <cedric at gmx.ca> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> while implementing pacman's downgrade operation in bash, I noticed that pacman also includes upgradeable package in the list of downgradeable ones. I did not complete the downgrade, but I would assume that it would have actually updated some of the packages.
>> In my bash function I filter the upgradeable packages out of the installed ones and this is what I expected pacman would do, too. Apparently, this is not the case and I wonder, if this is the intended behavior or if it should be considered as a bug.
>>
>> According to the documentation, I would say this is intended, so the term "downgrade" is a little bit misleading in my opinion.
>>
>>> Pass this option twice to enable package downgrade; in this case pacman will select sync packages whose version does not match with
>>> the local version. This can be useful when the user switches from a testing repo to a stable one.
> 
> Yes it is the intended behavior.
> Note the second sentence : "in this case pacman will select sync
> packages whose version does not match with the local version."
> This means both upgrade and downgrade.
> Suggestions for improving the docs are welcome :)


Thanks, so it's more a kind of 'local-to-remote-state-adjustment' than a downgrade (but in most of the cases, downgrade would fit). Unfortunately, however, no good replacement for that term came to my mind so far.