automatic package selection

[krumelmonster]

Checklist

• Admin:
  • No duplicate PRs
• Integration:
  • Update unit tests
  • Update shell completions
  • Update configuration file
• Documentation:
  • Update usage function
  • Update mandoc
  • Update readme
  • Update locales
• Release:
  • Update change log
  • Update DOWNGRADE_VERSION

Description

The --any-candidate option picks the first candidate instead of presenting options with fzf. In conjunction with --ignore never (or always) it allows for noninteractive downgrades. It may not be a complete fix for #118 but it's enough to set a bunch of packages to a version of choice and not care whether they are sourced locally or from the archives.

[krumelmonster]

Can we merge or should I fixup these minor fixes first?

[pbrisbin]

This LGTM except for fixing up the escaped -- in the man-page. I'll merge once that's fixed.

[pbrisbin]

I'll merge once that's fixed.

Oops, and the test failures of course. Seems there's a syntax error somewhere 🤔

[pbrisbin]

Let me know when you've gotten tests passing, or if you need any help with that.

[krumelmonster]

whoops this may have been a bit too much force pushing. I only made the minor changes we've mentioned before but then I also rebased a bit.
https://github.com/archlinux-downgrade/downgrade/compare/d7e2077597c8429c5ec2f9d319da5170dab7549b..b80204251a70b26e2a77eeb1a3008829ce18ed51

[krumelmonster]

I updated the tests that broke due to the split-up of search_packages into search_ala and search_cache and rebased into the respective commit d82aa21 and I think we're now good to go. Workflows should succeed once you run them; tested here krumelmonster#1

I'm tempted to add some test cases for my changes themselves (cram looks really cool!) but that will be a task for another day (preferably in a later pr).

Again Sorry for the rebase mess and the mangling with #231 , changes since I started rebasing are:

• test cases
• syntax error due to missing ; in the {} (interestingly only CI catched this and bash ate it on my local arch)
• escaping the -- in the manpage
• make locale -- I believe I may have made a mess here because POT-Creation-Date has changed, let me know if this needs fixing

overall diff since before first force push: https://github.com/archlinux-downgrade/downgrade/compare/d7e2077597c8429c5ec2f9d319da5170dab7549b..d75b63242be75441c9891e659f52cff9b14e71ba

[pbrisbin]

No worries, thanks for sticking with it!