Re: [pacman-dev] RFC: [PATCH] Deprecate --root in favour of --sysroot

On 01/19/2018 08:22 AM, Eli Schwartz wrote:

On 01/19/2018 06:49 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

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The --root option was widely misunderstood, and is now replaced by --sysroot.

Signed-off-by: Allan McRae ---

The idea of --sysroot was to provide something that --root never quite did. Is there any reason to keep --root?

pacstrap breaks if you try to replace --root with --sysroot, since the --sysroot does not yet exist and does not have a pacman.conf.

We could prepare the newroot by copying /etc/pacman.conf and /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist within pacstrap, but this means if the pacman.conf differs from whatever the latest version of pacman has, it will be installed as a pacnew.

Other than that, I cannot think of any reason anyone would wish to use --root.

And of course agregory pointed out that now that we also have pacman-conf we can generate a config and copy it to $newroot/tmp I say we deprecate --root as fast as possible then. It's basically a bug that it doesn't behave like --sysroot already, and IIRC we are only using --sysroot instead of "fixing" --root, is in order to avoid surprising people who are by now used to the behavior of --root. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User