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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 15:42:14 +0200
From: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>
To: Dubiousjim <lists+alpine-devel@jimpryor.net>
Cc: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Some questions about apk-tools
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:36:33 -0500 Dubiousjim
<lists+alpine-devel@jimpryor.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:14:17AM -0500, Dubiousjim wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks so much for these explanations. Things are a lot clearer now.
> > 
> > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 03:44:04PM +0200, Timo Teras wrote:
> > > with "fix" -r is actually reinstall, the default behaviour. with
> > > -d you get the fix action propagated to all dependencies. With -d
> > > it would reinstall the named package and all it's dependencies.
> > 
> > So the -r flag on fix is a noop?
> 
> From quickly peeking at the source, it looks like:
> 
>     * `apk fix foo` and `apk fix -r foo` behave the same. Can I assume
>       that it's always the current version that's re-installed, even
> if an upgrade is available? And that if foo isn't currently installed,
>       these commands do nothing?

Correct. This is a legacy thing, on previous versions (alpine 2.3 and
earlier), the you had to specify -r or -u. That was kinda lame to
most of the time need to write the extra -r, so now it is assumed if -u
is not specified.

>     * `apk fix -u foo` won't reinstall foo, but will install an
> upgrade for foo if one is available.

Correct.

> 
>     * `apk fix -r -u foo` will install an upgrade for foo if one is
>        available, else will reinstall the current version.

Correct.

> Is that right?

Yes. :)

- Timo


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