[pacman-dev] [PATCH] checkupdates: Provide --nosync option

[Samir Benmendil]

Adds an option to not attempt to sync the CHECKUPDATES_DB. This provides
a way to very quickly get a list of outdated packages provided there is
a different mechanism to update CHECKUPDATES_DB already in place such as
a crontab entry or systemd.timer.

Signed-off-by: Samir Benmendil <me at rmz.io>
---
 src/checkupdates.sh.in | 17 +++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/checkupdates.sh.in b/src/checkupdates.sh.in
index 67ff144..027600f 100644
--- a/src/checkupdates.sh.in
+++ b/src/checkupdates.sh.in
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ Note: Export the "CHECKUPDATES_DB" variable to change the path of the temporary
 __EOF__
 }
 
-OPT_SHORT='dh'
-OPT_LONG=('download' 'help' 'nocolor')
+OPT_SHORT='dnh'
+OPT_LONG=('download' 'help' 'nocolor' 'norefresh')
 
 if ! parseopts "$OPT_SHORT" "${OPT_LONG[@]}" -- "$@"; then
 	exit 1
@@ -74,10 +74,13 @@ fi
 set -- "${OPTRET[@]}"
 unset OPT_SHORT OPT_LONG OPTRET
 
+SYNC=1
 while :; do
 	case $1 in
 		-d|--download)
 			DOWNLOAD_CACHE=1 ;;
+		-n|--nosync)
+			SYNC=0 ;;
 		-h|--help)
 			usage
 			exit 0 ;;
@@ -112,10 +115,12 @@ if [[ -z "$DBPath" ]] || [[ ! -d "$DBPath" ]]; then
 	DBPath="@localstatedir@/lib/pacman/"
 fi
 
-mkdir -p "$CHECKUPDATES_DB"
-ln -s "${DBPath}/local" "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" &> /dev/null
-if ! fakeroot -- pacman -Sy --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" --logfile /dev/null &> /dev/null; then
-	die 'Cannot fetch updates'
+if (( ${SYNC} )); then
+	mkdir -p "$CHECKUPDATES_DB"
+	ln -s "${DBPath}/local" "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" &> /dev/null
+	if ! fakeroot -- pacman -Sy --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" --logfile /dev/null &> /dev/null; then
+	    die 'Cannot fetch updates'
+	fi
 fi
 mapfile -t updates < <(pacman -Qu --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" 2> /dev/null | grep -v '\[.*\]')
 
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2.30.0