[aur-general] [pacman][Feature Request] make pacman case-insensitive.

[nobody44]

Hello,

Try
pacman -R FIREFOX
and
pacman -R firefox

In this case, it is case sensitive.

But:
pacman -Ss FIREFOX
This is case-insensitive.

Please do not make pacman -S(R) case-insensitive. I don't like the idea,
because the next "feature" would be case-insensitive paths.

nobody44

On 12.10.2012 14:47, Dave Reisner wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 08:43:53PM +0800, Tianjiao Yin wrote:
>> Hello, all:
>>
>> When we run "pacman -S Firefox", we will get "error: target not found:
>> Firefox" because there is only firefox, not Firefox, in repo. IMHO it
>> could be better if pacman is case insensitive.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mizuchi
> Pardon? This is already the case:
>
> $ pacman -Ssq FIREFOX | wc -l
> 184
>
> Sure enough, we use case insensitive regex. From lib/libalpm/db.c:
>
>   if(regcomp(&reg, targ, REG_EXTENDED | REG_NOSUB | REG_ICASE | REG_NEWLINE) != 0) {
>   ...
>
> Please make sure pacman isn't an alias or wrapper to some other program
> that isn't pacman.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave