[pacman-dev] [PATCH] libalpm/sync.c: restrict alpm_sync_newversion by USAGE_UPGRADE

[Allan McRae]

On 29/08/18 14:59, Eli Schwartz wrote:
>> My thoughts:
>>
>> 1) Implementing --print-format usage for -Su is the correct way to
>> determine updates.  (I guess in combination with --no-confirm?)
>
> It works today, though, as I mentioned above. The only "problem" is that
> people never remember --print-format exists, mostly because it's not
> implemented in all the *other* cases where we'd want to have it.
> 

Well...   that is embarrassing!  Seems I forgot it works for -Su too!

Someone should send the pacman-contrib maintainers a patch to use that
instead of -Qu.

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