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DonVla

Member

From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 997

"pacman -Qu" bug?

hi all,
bugs site is down, so i'm writing this here.
when running

# pacman -Qu
lyx 1.6.3-1
sqlite3 3.6.16-1
subversion 1.6.4-1
tzdata 2009k-1

but

# pacman -Su
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (4): lyx-1.6.4-1 [10.35 MB]  sqlite3-3.6.17-1 [0.40 MB]  subversion-1.6.5-1 [6.86 MB]  tzdata-2009l-1 [0.56 MB]

Total Download Size:    18.17 MB
Total Installed Size:   73.98 MB

note that the first versions are the old ones.
bug or feature?

vlad

jelly

Administrator

From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 716

Re: "pacman -Qu" bug?

sync mirrors  and check it once again ?

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DonVla

Member

From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 997

Re: "pacman -Qu" bug?

nah, has nothing to do with mirrors. upgrading works. i noticed this earlier.
btw, i liked the former behaviour more. "pacman -Qu" showed the same as "pacman -Su" but without the installation prompt.
so you see what you'd get.

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: "pacman -Qu" bug?

feature : -Q queries the local database so it shows currently installed packages
u is just a filter on -Q (just like e, t, d, m) that shows the outdated packages.

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pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

sand_man

Member

From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: "pacman -Qu" bug?

pacman -Qu shows upgradable packages (on the local db) so this is not a bug, it's doing what it's supposed to do.

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DonVla

Member

From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 997

Re: "pacman -Qu" bug?

yes thanks.
as i said, i liked the former behaviour though it did not "conform" with pacman's filter options.