install_local() tries to upgrade dependencies in "Remotes:", even if upgrade = "never"

[mkoohafkan]

I have a package packagetwo with a dependency on packageone in the DESCRIPTION:

Package: packagetwo
Imports: packageone
Remotes: git::http://url/for/packageone.git
...

I install packageone locally:

remotes::install_local('path/to/packageone')
# works!

I then try to install packagetwo locally, without upgrading dependencies. However, remotes still calls out to the remote repository for packageone, even though it is already installed:

remotes::install_local('path/to/packagetwo', upgrade = "never")

This seems like a bug.

My current workaround is to install all of the dependencies for packagetwo (and specifically exclude packageone), and then install packagetwo with the argument dependencies = FALSE.

I do want it to install dependencies for packagetwo, just not those that are already installed (which I thought would be accomplished via the argument upgrade = "never").

[gaborcsardi]

That's not a bug. remotes is not sure if version requested from git::http://url/for/packageone.git is installed, so it installs it.

[mkoohafkan]

But with upgrade = "never", aren't we explicitly telling remotes to not do that check?

[gaborcsardi]

That does not apply to Remotes, only to CRAN packages.