FS#65654 - pacman does not warn about out-of-date package when trying to install one

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by egil (egil) - Friday, 28 February 2020, 17:43 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 29 February 2020, 08:03 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 5.2.1
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
I recently wasted 1000 MB by installing https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/intellij-idea-community-edition/ which was earlier flagged out of date.
pacman did not warn me and I think this is a bug.

Additional info:
intellij failed to start the plugin I needed because of being out of date, see  FS#65303 

Steps to reproduce:
run pacman -S intellij-idea-community-edition
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Saturday, 29 February 2020, 08:03 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  This is not a pacman issue.
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Friday, 28 February 2020, 17:50 GMT
I completely don't understand what you're trying to say. What does flagging a package out of date on a website have to do with the pacman repository? And how is it wasteful to download a package and install it when it is in fact the most recent version packaged in the repos?
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Friday, 28 February 2020, 17:52 GMT
  • Field changed: Attached to Project (Community Packages → Pacman)
Also if you think *pacman* is doing something wrong, then the ticket belongs on the pacman bug tracer component.
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Friday, 28 February 2020, 17:57 GMT
Do you want pacman to e.g. tell you when packages you are trying to install have a bug report filed against them in some configured distribution bugtracker?

If it is just about reporting when a website's out-of-date flag indicates the package is out of date, then this is likely not going to help you a lot anyway, because I assume you want the package even if it happens to not be running the latest feature release.

Either one could, I suppose, be done using an alpm hook: https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/alpm-hooks.5.html
You probably would need to write your own script to scrape a website for pertinent information. (archweb, which powers https://www.archlinux.org/, has json endpoints, flyspray which powers this bugtracker will need html scraping.)

This is definitely not something I see becoming core pacman functionality.

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