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[unmaintained] A Pacman frontend with more features and AUR support
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ignore flag does not support globbing #331

Open 0phoff opened 7 years ago

0phoff commented 7 years ago

Request Yaourt does not support globbing on the --ignore flag (or IgnorePkg in pacman.conf) Is there a specific reason why this is not implemented?

Background I use yaourt to perform all my package updates as it updates both normal and AUR packages. Recently I installed the ROS packages (middleware for distributed robot systems). However, I dont really use the packages on a daily basis anymore, so I dont need all the updates on these packages! I dont want to remove the packages, because I will reuse them later for sure.

I tried to add a line to pacman.conf 'IgnorePkg = ros-kinetic*' (all pkgs start with that). Sadly, I noticed this is not working with yaourt!

Updating all of the packages ROS provides takes quite some time and I have to many packages to list them all individually...

Is there a way to achieve what I want to do?

f2404 commented 7 years ago

yaourt passes this option directly to pacman which does not support wildcards - that's it.

0phoff commented 7 years ago

Since the packages I want disabled are AUR packages I cannot test it, but citing the man pages of pacman.conf

IgnorePkg = package …
Instructs pacman to ignore any upgrades for this package when performing a --sysupgrade. Shell-style glob patterns are allowed.

So it seems they do allow for glob-patterns.. 🤡 Need to test if it actually works though!

edit: link to online man page

f2404 commented 7 years ago

yaourt is using command line option which doesn't seem to be supporting globs.

For AUR packages, yaourt would need to implement its own --ignore option, I guess.

0phoff commented 7 years ago

Oh ok, so you're saying --ignore doesnt allow for globbing, but IgnorePkg does? Could be an explanation, I will try and toy around to see if it is correct!

Feel free to close this issue, if you are not planning to add support for this! (and have no other way of providing a solution to my problem)

larchunix commented 7 years ago

Pacman does support globbing for command line option --ignore, it is definitively a deficiency on yaourt side.

I guess the check in function is_package_ignored() from pacman.sh.in must be improved, not sure if other code should be modified.