[pacman-dev] [PATCH] repo-add: should have option to prevent downgrading

[Morgan Adamiec]

On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 at 13:21, Ralph Corderoy <ralph at inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi ekardnam,
>
> > +        printf -- "$(gettext "  --dont-downgrade  do not add package to database if a newer version is already present\n")"
> ...
> > +                warning "$(gettext "A newer version for '%s' is already present in database")" "$pkgname"
>
> Negative options always read a bit oddly.
> How about the positive --keep-new?
> That's the sense used in the warning message.
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.

--dont-downgrade is way more clear than --keep-new in my opinion.