[bug-notifications] [pkgutil 0003904]: pkgutil 1.7: --transform doesn't work when package is already installed

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The following issue has been ASSIGNED. 
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http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=3904 
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Reported By:                skayser
Assigned To:                bonivart
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Project:                    pkgutil
Issue ID:                   3904
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2009-09-17 16:39 CEST
Last Modified:              2009-09-23 18:09 CEST
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Summary:                    pkgutil 1.7: --transform doesn't work when package
is already installed
Description: 
Me again. In contrary to the -s/--stream option, --transform seems to check
the requested package against the ones that are already installed and
doesn't proceed if the package is already installed.

skayser @ ray42 ~$ pkgutil --transform wget
You're not root and didn't set -W, using current dir.
Parsing catalog, may take a while...
Current packages: CSWcacertificates-20090108,REV=2009.01.08
CSWcommon-1.4.6,REV=2008.04.28 CSWcswclassutils-1.18,REV=2009.08.10
CSWosslrt-0.9.8,REV=2009.03.27_rev=k CSWwget-1.11.4,REV=2009.04.15
$

The primary usage of --transform for me is to cross-check ongoing
packaging work with other packages. Whether a requested package is already
installed doesn't really matter to me, i just want to have a look at the
full package structure.

IIRC i was in favor of --transform to work as a switch to -d and to have
-d download a package independently of whether it is already installed.
Similar to "aptitude download <pkgname>" on Debian. Did we talk about that?
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