Make "pub update PACKAGE" update a specific package.

utils/pub/entrypoint.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #library('entrypoint');
 
 #import('io.dart');
 #import('lock_file.dart');
 #import('package.dart');
 #import('root_source.dart');
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     return _loadLockFile()
       .chain((lockFile) => resolveVersions(cache.sources, root, lockFile))
       .chain(_installDependencies);
   }
 
   /**
    * Installs the latest available versions of all dependencies of the [root]
    * package to its "package" directory, writing a new [LockFile]. Returns a
    * [Future] that completes when all dependencies are installed.
    */
-  Future updateDependencies() {
+  Future updateAllDependencies() {
     return resolveVersions(cache.sources, root, new LockFile.empty()).
       chain(_installDependencies);
   }
 
   /**
+   * Installs the latest available versions of [dependencies], while leaving
+   * other dependencies as specified by the [LockFile]. Returns a [Future] that
+   * completes when all dependencies are installed.
+   */
+  Future updateDependencies(List<String> dependencies) {
+    return _loadLockFile().chain((lockFile) {
+      for (var dependency in dependencies) {
+        // TODO(nweiz): How do we want to detect and handle unknown
+        // dependencies here?
+        lockFile.packages.remove(dependency);
+      }
+      return resolveVersions(cache.sources, root, lockFile);
+    }).chain(_installDependencies);
+  }
+
+  /**
    * Installs all dependencies listed in [packageVersions] and writes a
    * [LockFile].
    */
   Future _installDependencies(List<PackageId> packageVersions) {
     return Futures.wait(packageVersions.map((id) {
       if (id.source is RootSource) return new Future.immediate(id);
       return install(id);
     })).chain(_saveLockFile);
   }
 
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    */
   Future _saveLockFile(List<PackageId> packageIds) {
     var lockFile = new LockFile.empty();
     for (var id in packageIds) {
       if (id.source is! RootSource) lockFile.packages[id.name] = id;
     }
 
     return writeTextFile(join(root.dir, 'pubspec.lock'), lockFile.serialize());
   }
 }