[pacman-dev] [PATCH v3] Treat packages to be printed as non-ignored

[Allan McRae]

On 15/03/13 00:30, Dave Reisner wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:37:10PM -0700, Connor Behan wrote:
>> Calling pacman -Sp and pacman -Sup are guaranteed not to install a
>> package.
> 
> I feel the need to point out that --ignore guarantees that a package
> won't even be *downloaded*. Xyne already mentioned it, but I'll parrot
> his concern about this effectively changing command line API.
> 

Where do you get that guarantee?   All the documentation says is:

Instructs pacman to ignore any upgrades for this package when performing
a --sysupgrade.

So I am not even sure Xyne's example is valid, based purely on what this
is documented to do...  -Sp is not an --sysupgrade operation, and this
patch specifically keeps --ignore for -Sup operations.


So... to understand what people think pacman _should_ do, if "foo" (in
group "bar") is in IgnorePkg:

"-Sup" should not print a URL for foo  (not up for debate...)

"-Sp foo" should print a URL for foo   (currently does not).

What should "-Sp bar" print?  From what is currently documented, it is
not a --sysupgrade, so IgnorePkg should not have an effect.  From what
currently happens, it should not print a "foo" URL.

Allan