pacsync $repo and pactrans

[AladW]

pacsync allows syncing a specific repo, while pactrans only allows a general --sysupgrade for all repos. Would it be reasonable to implement a per-repo --sysupgrade for pactrans?

Example use case: Updating packages from a local (file:///) repository.

[andrewgregory]

The ability to sync individual repos follows very naturally from the nature of the tool and the way libalpm handles repo updates. The same cannot be said for repo-specific sysupgrades. That would require pactrans to skip registering unwanted repos or altering their usage from what is in pacman.conf. I am not inclined to add that level of granularity to pacutils, at least not at this time. It could, however, possibly be accomplished by using pacconf to build a temporary config file with only the desired repos. I would need to add an option to get the non-repo settings from pacconf but it would look something like: pactrans --sysupgrade --config=<(printf "[core]\n"; pacconf --repo=core)

[andrewgregory]

92eee4e adds the ability to get just the global options from pacconf, making it possible to generate a config file with just the desired repo with something like:

printf "[options]\n"
pacconf --options
printf "[%s]\n" "$repo"
pacconf --repo="$repo"

[AladW]

Thanks