Use the cached pubspec if possible for describing hosted packages.

utils/tests/pub/install/hosted/cached_pubspec_test.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 pub_tests;
+
+import 'package:pathos/path.dart' as path;
+import 'package:scheduled_test/scheduled_test.dart';
+
+import '../../../../pub/io.dart';
+import '../../descriptor.dart' as d;
+import '../../test_pub.dart';
+
+main() {
+  initConfig();
+
+  integration('does not request a pubspec for a cached package', () {
+    servePackages([packageMap("foo", "1.2.3")]);
+
+    d.appDir([dependencyMap("foo", "1.2.3")]).create();
+
+    // Run install once so it gets cached.
+    schedulePub(args: ['install'],
+        output: new RegExp("Dependencies installed!\$"));
+
+    // Clear the cache. We don't care about anything that was served during
+    // the initial install.
+    getRequestedPaths();
+
+    d.cacheDir({"foo": "1.2.3"}).validate();
+    d.packagesDir({"foo": "1.2.3"}).validate();
+
+    // Run the solver again now that it's cached.
+    schedulePub(args: ['install'],
+        output: new RegExp("Dependencies installed!\$"));
+
+    // The update should not have requested the pubspec since it's installed
+    // locally already.
+    getRequestedPaths().then((paths) {
+      expect(paths, isNot(contains("packages/foo/versions/1.2.3.yaml")));
+    });
+  });
+}