FS#35308 - Add a DownloadOnly line to pacman.conf

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Moviuro (Moviuro) - Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 11:53 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 31 January 2016, 09:15 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Hi all!

It would be a great feature to add to pacman.conf a "DownloadOnly" line in which the administrator could specify which packages he wants to sync but not install (unless specified) (quite handy for kernels or some huge DE upgrades). Packages listed will be treated as with "pacman -Sw" but a "pacman -S packageFromTheDownloadOnlyList" should install it.

Example:
/etc/pacman.conf:
DownloadOnly = linux

# pacman -Syu
will upgrade full system but 'linux', which will only be downloaded.

# pacman -Syu linux
will upgrade full system and 'linux' too.

# pacman -Syu{some other letter}
will upgrade full system and all packages in DownlodOnly.

That's it!
This task depends upon

Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Sunday, 31 January 2016, 09:15 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 12:57 GMT
Sounds like creative use of --ignore or IgnorePkg would fulfill this.

Not really a fan of the idea.

Loading...