Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/2] makepkg: allow to specify an alternative pacman command

1 Dec 2009


      On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
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@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ check_deps() {
       if (( ret == 127 )); then #unresolved deps
               echo "$pmout"
       elif (( ret )); then
-               error "$(gettext "Pacman returned a fatal error (%i):
%s")" "$ret" "$pmout"
+               error "$(gettext "%s returned a fatal error (%i): %s")"
"${PACMAN##*/}" "$ret" "$pmout"
Should we also strip any flags provided in the PACMAN variable?  e.g. I
could set PACMAN="pacman -v" for verbose output.  I guess some wrappers
might have flags that would be useful to specify.
I would say no to this; if a person wants flags then we shouldn't mess
with them.

-Dan

    

Dan McGee