mgarepo-1.14.2-4.mga8 is available in core/updates_testing with the --no-vcs option backported.

Test procedure (works for 1.14.2-4 only):

1. Use "mgarepo co X; cd X" to check out just about any package
2. "rm SOURCES/*z" to delete the source tarball
3. "sed -i 1iPatch999:foobar SPECS/*spec && echo foo > SOURCES/foobar" to add a fake patch to the spec file
4. "mgarepo sync --dry-run -d && svn status" should show the missing file, then download it, then, for the last mention of foobar, show "?   SOURCES/foobar" to show that it hasn't been added to svn. This validates the existing behaviuor. 
5. Repeat step 2.
6. "mgarepo sync --no-vcs -d && svn status" should have exactly the same behaviour as step 4.
7. "mgarepo sync && svn status" should show "A   SOURCES/foobar" for both mentions of foobar, to show that foobar has been added to svn.

Keywords: (none) => has_procedure
Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Mageia8, x86_64
Checked out rust for this test, before and after updating.
For mgarepo-1.14.2-3.mga8 no --no-cvs option.

After update:
$ ls SOURCES
0001-Use-lld-provided-by-system-for-wasm.patch
macros.rust-toolset
rustc-1.50.0-allow_fail-armv7-instruction_set.patch
rustc-1.61.0-rust-gdb-substitute-path.patch
rustc-1.65.0-disable-libssh2.patch
rustc-1.65.0-no-default-pie.patch
rustc-1.68.0-disable-http2.patch
sha1.lst
$ ls .svn
entries  format  pristine/  tmp/  wc.db  wc.db-journal
$ sed -i 1iPatch999:foobar SPECS/*spec && echo foo > SOURCES/foobar
$ mgarepo sync --dry-run -d && svn status
A	./SOURCES/wasi-libc-wasi-sdk-19.tar.gz
A	./SOURCES/rustc-1.68.0-src.tar.xz
A	./SOURCES/foobar
?       SOURCES/foobar
?       SOURCES/rustc-1.68.0-src.tar.xz
?       SOURCES/wasi-libc-wasi-sdk-19.tar.gz
M       SPECS/rust.spec

$ rm -f SOURCES/*z
$ sed -i 1iPatch999:foobar SPECS/*spec && echo foo > SOURCES/foobar
$ mgarepo sync --no-vcs -d && svn status
...........
A	./SOURCES/wasi-libc-wasi-sdk-19.tar.gz
A	./SOURCES/rustc-1.68.0-src.tar.xz
A	./SOURCES/foobar
?       SOURCES/foobar
?       SOURCES/rustc-1.68.0-src.tar.xz
?       SOURCES/wasi-libc-wasi-sdk-19.tar.gz
M       SPECS/rust.spec

Hope that this is all correct.  Looks like it to me.

CC: (none) => tarazed25

Referring to comment 2:  s/--no-cvs/--no-vcs/

Those test results look good. Making that particular Freudian slip in the option name really shows my age... At least I didn't say --no-sccs

Thanks for the procedure Dan.  Sending this on.

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA8-64-OK

Validating.

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
CC: (none) => andrewsfarm, sysadmin-bugs

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2023-0036.html

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED