[pacman-dev] [PATCH] during -Qu add [ignored] for repos without Usage = Upgrade

[Allan McRae]

On 20/9/18 3:18 am, Morgan Adamiec wrote:
> Yeah -Qu is still a little funky.
> 
>> It gets better...   packages in databases with Usage = Upgrade do not
>> show up in -Qu.  That is clearly wrong!
> 
> I left the requirement on Usage = Search after every one disagreed with
> my patch [1] to change it. Although I would prefer it if Search had no
> bearing on this.
> 
> So with this patch, Search is needed for a package to be listed and
> Upgrade is needed for [ignore] to not be added.
> 
>> My plan is to change alpm_sync_newversion to take an additional
>> parameter to flag whether it should include all databases or just those
>> available for upgrades.  It could even be make more flexible and just
>> take the bitmask as a parameter for filtering.
> 
> Why not just remove the Usage check all together? You need
> alpm_sync_newversion to find the packages then later we do the Usage =
> Upgrade check to add [ignored] to the end of the line.

My concern is of users of that function other than pacman (if there are
any...).  Adding a parameter at least flags the change in behaviour an
allows other users to keep it the way it was.

> Unless you want the packages to not show up at all? That's exactly what
> the previous patch [1] did.
> 
> [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2018-July/022723.html
> .
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