On 4/1/19 2:21 pm, Allan McRae wrote: > The behaviour of "pacman -Qu" was very strange... It would only consider > packages from repos with Usage = Search (or All), and ignore those with > Usage = Sync, Install or Upgrade. > > This is because alpm_sync_newversion() used ALPM_DB_USAGE_SEARCH for its > filtering. Given this function is documented (at least in the source) to > "Check for new version of pkg in sync repos", I would expect that to look at > all repos. However, just changing this parameter, would result in a fairly > silent change in behaviour of this function. To counter that, add a parameter > to the function that tells it which databases usage levels to consider. > > Finally, list all available updates in -Qu output, but include [ignored] > beside > those that will not be updated in a -Su operation due to thier repo Usage > value (in addition to those that are Ignored). > > Fixes FS#59854. > > With thanks to the following who provided initial patches to print [ignored] > on > -Qu operations, which highlighted the larger problem: > morganamilo <[email protected]> > Michael Straube <[email protected]> > > Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <[email protected]> > --- > > In comments on earlier patches, there was debate about what the > alpm_sync_newversion() is doing. Although I expect users of this function > to likely always pass ALPM_DB_USAGE_ALL, I think changing the function > signature is the safest way to handle this change. > > Comments? >
For reference, here are other threads about this: https://patchwork.archlinux.org/patch/704/ https://patchwork.archlinux.org/patch/752/
