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FS#41223 - [pacman] checkupdates (or pacman -Qu) ignores IgnorePkg

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Steven Honeyman (stevenhoneyman) - Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 19:28 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 28 May 2015, 04:43 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Allan McRae (Allan)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I use the "checkupdates" script provided with pacman in a cron job to alert me of new updates.
As there's currently a problem with parcellite, I've had to downgrade, so I added it to pacman.conf as an IgnorePkg until the bug is resolved.

`pacman -Syu` still works as expected, and reminds me that it isn't going to upgrade parcellite.
`checkupdates` after a full upgrade, still says "parcellite" every time it runs. This seems to be because `pacman -Qu` doesn't look at IgnorePkg configuration.

That may be intended behaviour, or it's at least running in the way that is documented (i.e. it doesn't mention --query):

IgnorePkg = package ...
Instructs pacman to ignore any upgrades for this package when
performing a --sysupgrade.


If that is the case, then I think the checkupdates script should filter out any packages that are set to be Ignored in pacman.conf
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Thursday, 28 May 2015, 04:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in pacman-4.2 by c23ff87893d
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 19:38 GMT
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29013
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15785
Comment by Steven Honeyman (stevenhoneyman) - Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 19:42 GMT
Wow, they're old! Fix should be as easy as:

sed -i 's/pacman -Qqu/fakeroot pacman -Su --print/' /usr/bin/checkupdates

...I think? There's no updates right now so I can't test it :)
Comment by Steven Honeyman (stevenhoneyman) - Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 19:45 GMT
ah, not quite that easy. still shows ":: Starting full system upgrade..."

and also prints the url not the package name. doh!
Comment by Steven Honeyman (stevenhoneyman) - Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 19:52 GMT
fakeroot pacman -Su --print --print-format=%n --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" 2> /dev/null | grep -v '^::'

It's messy - I don't like the pipe to grep, but that works
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 21:24 GMT
From git:

$ pacman -Qu
curl 7.37.0-1 -> 7.37.1-1 [ignored]
jre7-openjdk 7.u60_2.5.0-3 -> 7.u65_2.5.1-3
jre7-openjdk-headless 7.u60_2.5.0-3 -> 7.u65_2.5.1-3

So I guess checkupdates could filter using that.
Comment by Kyle Keen (keenerd) - Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 21:48 GMT
As a tangential bug, "pacman -Sup" and "pacman -Supq" produce the exact same output. It would be nice if the -q suppressed the non-print status output. Then no grep pipe would be needed.

I would prefer using -Sup to -Qu since it is more in-line with checkupdates's purpose.
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 22:17 GMT
Open a new bug.
Comment by Kyle Keen (keenerd) - Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 22:29 GMT
Thanks, just wanted to confirm -Supq was a bug before opening. Its at
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41228

Should it be considered a related task?

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