wish: action to update footprints

[KaiMartin]

Please add a way to update the footprints used in a
layout. This would swap the footprint used in the
layout with whatever is found in the current library.

Ideally the action optionally acts only on specific
footprints. Doing an update to all kinds of footprints
is potentially dangerous, as it may change more
footprints than desirable.
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[Dan White (etihwnad)]

I've made a patch adding this capability by extending the ElementList action like:

ElementList(Need,<refdes>,<footprint>,<value>[,ForceUpdate])

With the ForceUpdate flag, the action acts as if the footprint was changed. The replaced element is in the same orientation keyed off the element's mark.

The patch can currently be found at my pcb fork at:

http://repo.or.cz/w/geda-pcb/whiteaudio.git

branch "whiteaudio"
commit 99dbd78c30fd77e46a2fc6e14e3bc3e447742093

[Bert Timmerman (bert-timmerman)]

Hi Dan,

I grabbed the above mentioned commit on feb 24th but I can't find it in your git repo anymore.

Did you rebase on a new and improved version on march 29th ?

Hope to hear from you.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.

[Bert Timmerman (bert-timmerman)]

Hi Dan,

I have overlooked it.

Just found it by looking into the right branch, I need better glasses ;-)

Please ignore the above #2 comment.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.