--gendb doesn't seem to work

[username227]

Affected Version

paru v2.0.3 - libalpm v14.0.0

Description

I use pamac most of the time because it's convenient (no hate please), but occasionally need to use paru (love the chroot feature). I will run paru --gendb to update -git packages prior to updating. However, even after running the gendb command, when updating, it will still ask to update all git packages to the latest commit.

The paru man page indicates that when after running the gendb command, it should assume that currently installed version is latest commit and not ask for updating to the latest commit any longer.

Output

❯ paru --gendb
:: Querying AUR...
:: packages not in the AUR: H265Repack-git authy chaotic-keyring
chaotic-mirrorlist dynarmic-debug h265repack js102 kpeoplevcard
libpamac-full-debug light-debug pamac-all-debug pamac-cli-debug
snapd-glib-debug

:: Downloading PKGBUILDs...
(11/11) dotnet-core-bin-8.0.7.sdk303-2 (dotnet-host-b [-----------------------]:: Looking for devel repos...
❯ paru
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
there is nothing to do
:: Looking for PKGBUILD upgrades...
:: Looking for AUR upgrades...
:: Looking for devel upgrades...
:: Resolving dependencies...
:: Calculating conflicts...
:: Calculating inner conflicts...
:: packages not in the AUR: H265Repack-git authy chaotic-keyring
chaotic-mirrorlist h265repack js102 kpeoplevcard
:: marked out of date: pamac-all pyside2 python-shiboken2 snapd-glib
:: orphans: consolas-font python-glad

Aur (2) Old Version New Version Make Only
aur/lime3ds-git r10432.7b0fbdf-1 latest-commit No
aur/torzu-git r27158.1b51d49e1-1 latest-commit No

:: Proceed to review? [Y/n]: n

[username227]

Bump. Any ideas on how to fix this?

[Morganamilo]

The information is out of date. If paru has a commit cached for the package already it will keep it as is instead of updating it to latest.

This means updates no longer get suppressed and get the latest-commit upgrades as you should.

[username227]

So, if I have, (for example) five -git packages that are already up to date, and I run "paru --gendb", why will all five still build the "latest commit"? How can I get paru to recognize that they are up to date already? Isn't that what gendb is supposed to do? As I said, it seems to be doing nothing. I don't really understand what you are saying above. thanks.