"--skip-update" has no effect #4363
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Hm, it's weird, for any pinned package opam is supposed to have a cache of its latest sources at For removals, however, these updates are never necessary, so indeed the option shouldn't do anything. I only tested on 2.1.0~beta2, but here is what I get after removing a pinned package's upstream: $ opam upgrade ocp-index
<><> Synchronising pinned packages ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
[ERROR] Could not synchronize $OPAM_SWITCH_PREFIX/.opam-switch/sources/ocp-index from "git+file:///tmp/ocp-index.x#master":
"/usr/bin/git fetch -q" exited with code 128
[ocp-index.1.2.1] fetching sources failed: git+file:///tmp/ocp-index.x#master
Already up-to-date.
Nothing to do.
$ opam upgrade ocp-index --skip
Already up-to-date.
Nothing to do.
$ opam remove ocp-index
The following actions will be performed:
⊘ remove ocp-browser 1.2.1* [uses ocp-index]
⊘ remove ocp-index 1.2.1*
===== ⊘ 2 =====
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
<><> Processing actions <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
⊘ removed ocp-browser.1.2.1
⊘ removed ocp-index.1.2.1
Done.So there is no issue with either NB: have you tried To conclude, at this point I don't know yet if this is fixed in 2.1 or if I just couldn't reproduce. |
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I have since worked around it by killing the hanging Note that the deinstallation did update many things because this is a system switch and the system compiler changed, so any command will rebuild all the things. (I always struggle hard to make it only rebuild the parts I intend to keep, but found it very hard to combine "rebuild" and "upgrade" and "remove stuff I do not need any more" in a single command so usually I just give up on the "upgrade" part.) Maybe that is related? |
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Ah, it might be related, indeed... I'll see if I can reproduce with that extra information.
Indeed, I don't think I have an easy solution at the moment, there is no compound install/remove or upgrade/remove command. We have been discussing a more generic Maybe the most useful solution would be to add a flag that does something similar to Also note that you can do |
These are not usually autoinstalled packages that I want to get rid of. What usually happens is that I want to update some library, and then realize the system switch needs rebuilding. (All my switches are system switches. Maybe that is the mistake.^^ But it keeps them smaller.) If I now just |
Ah, actually the opposite could do the trick then ? |
Yeah, something like that... though then I still need two transactions if I also want to install something.
I will try to remember looking this up the next time the problem comes up (aka the next time debian upgrades its ocaml). Thanks! |
I have an opam package installed whose git URL is now dead.
opam uninstall coq-tlchangs forever, trying to download the latest sources:So I tried to add
--skip-updates, but that does not help either, it still updates the package! Looks like it is impossible to uninstall or update this package, so I will have to delete the switch and start over again?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: