On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 07:39:29PM +0000, Douglas Soares de Andrade wrote:
> 1) Is there a way to do a pacman -U in a bunch of packages without installing 
> the ones that are not in the system ?
> 
> Something like an upgradepkg in the slackware world.
> 
> Im asking this because i have 56k internet  in home, so i get the packages in 
> the university and then take it to home.

Have you checked the pacman manpage?  I'd suggest looking at the freshen
section.

> 2) Is there a way to create repositories without the PKGBUILDs ? This is 
> again 
> for the same problem above.
> 
> I have packages from all repositories and to get all the PKGBUILDs for all 
> the 
> packages that i take to home will be a problem, since they are almost 1 gb of 
> packages.

There is a way to do it, it's not official... but I'd like it to be.  It's
a patch to makepkg (not needed in your case) and gensync.

> Is there any solution to any of the problems ?

Jason

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