Cleanup of _alpm_pkg_compare_versions.

* Change the return values to be more informative.

It was previously boolean, only indicating if a sync package was newer than
a local package.

Now it is a simple wrapper to vercmp, handling the force flag.

* Remove the verbose output from _alpm_pkg_compare_versions.

The "force" message is not so useful.
The "package : local (v1) is newer than repo (v2)" message can be moved to
-Su operation.
For the -S operation, it is better to have something like :
"downgrading package from v1 to v2"

* Don't display the "up to date -- skipping" and "up to date -- reinstalling"
messages, when the local version is newer than the sync one.

* Fix the behavior of --needed option to not skip a target when the local
version is newer, and clarify its description.

* Add a new alpm_pkg_has_force function

This allows us to access the pkg->force field like any other package fields.

Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libalpm/alpm.h b/lib/libalpm/alpm.h
index fbef0570..16b48a0a 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/alpm.h
+++ b/lib/libalpm/alpm.h
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ size_t alpm_pkg_changelog_read(void *ptr, size_t size,
 /*int alpm_pkg_changelog_feof(const pmpkg_t *pkg, void *fp);*/
 int alpm_pkg_changelog_close(const pmpkg_t *pkg, void *fp);
 unsigned short alpm_pkg_has_scriptlet(pmpkg_t *pkg);
+unsigned short alpm_pkg_has_force(pmpkg_t *pkg);
 
 off_t alpm_pkg_download_size(pmpkg_t *newpkg);