sync command - Sync Only (Do Not Create a Package)

[phil4business]

I would like the option to run choco sync and NOT create a new package. I have an existing version for the package which is behind by a patch version.

We have an existing install of a package on a system which does not like it when you run the MSI again. This software auto-updates and I am more concerned with the package being installed at all over maintaining a specific point release. I cannot run chco sync --id=$packageid as Chocolatey fails to build the package with choco sync due to some property-values of the install.

This is a follow up to support request 4889 and seems functionally related to chocolatey/choco#1920.

References

• ZenDesk Ticket

┆Issue is synchronized with this Gitlab issue by Unito

[ferventcoder]

Howdy @phil4business - I'm going to migrate this over to chocolatey-licensed-issues.

[ferventcoder]

Okay this has been moved. I'll need to go review the issue with the support staff and will probably have some followup questions. Thanks for creating this!

[ferventcoder]

@phil4business this looks like a bug - if you have an existing package it should find it and match to it, but obviously there is a bit of a fuzziness in this approach that is not finding the package name. I followed up on the original request, if you want to reply to that we can work internally first.

[ryanrichter94]

Bumping this as a feature request to allow choco sync to create a package index entry but no actual .nupkg file. ZenDesk Ticket.