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

[Andrew Gregory]

On 01/11/21 at 03:39pm, Samir Benmendil via pacman-dev wrote:
> 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 a way to very quickly get a list of outdated packages provided there is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(-)

checkupdates is part of pacman-contrib, they have a separate list.