[pacman-dev] [PATCH] libalpm: Fix installing update of a replaced package

[Andrew Gregory]

On 03/04/13 at 05:45am, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 04/03/13 05:43, Allan McRae wrote:
> > On 01/03/13 04:06, Olivier Brunel wrote:
> >> During a sysupgrade, if a package is replaced by another, and an update for the
> >> former package is found (on another repo) the replaced package would be
> >> re-installed.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Olivier Brunel <i.am.jack.mail at gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >> I'm not really familiar with inner workings of ALPM, so this is probably not the
> >> best way to do this.
> >>
<snip>
> >> diff --git a/test/pacman/tests/sync1104.py b/test/pacman/tests/sync1104.py
> >> new file mode 100644
> >> index 0000000..5cec98a
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/test/pacman/tests/sync1104.py
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
> >> +self.description = "Don't update (reinstall) a replaced package"
> >> +
> >> +lp = pmpkg("old", "1-1")
> >> +self.addpkg2db("local", lp)
> >> +
> >> +p1 = pmpkg("new")
> >> +p1.provides = ["old"]
> >> +p1.replaces = ["old"]
> >> +self.addpkg2db("sync1", p1)
> >> +
> >> +p2 = pmpkg("old", "1-2")
> >> +self.addpkg2db("sync2", p2)
> >> +
> >> +self.args = "-Su"
> >> +
> >> +self.addrule("PACMAN_RETCODE=0")
> >> +self.addrule("!PKG_EXIST=old")
> >> +self.addrule("PKG_EXIST=new")
> >>
> > 
> 
> Forgot to add - awesome for adding a pactest here!

Is the test case correct though?  Other than the fact that this one uses two
sync repos, this looks identical to sync132 which has the opposite result.

apg