[pacman-dev] pacman, be quiet !

[Mateusz Jędrasik]

Friday 20 of April 2007 00:10:27 Xavier napisał(a):
> $sudo pacman -Syu
> ...
>
> :: lomoco: local (1.0-5) appears to be newer than repo (community/1.0-3)
>
> ...
>
> I know, I installed that! grrr...
> I know I'm annoying with debian (:D), but debian tools like apt-get or
> aptitude don't annoy me with these kind of messages at each upgrade.
> However, what I like in synaptic (gui frontend) is its ability to show
> these locally installed packages (I don't think apt-get can do it).
> So what would be great is to disable these messages by default, but
> being able to list them, with eg pacman -Q --local, or whatever. But
> that's too hard for me.
> Anyway, I was looking at pacman code in pacman.c , and saw this :
> 290         /* debug levels are made more 'human readable' than using
> a raw logmask
> 291          * here, we will ALWAYS set error and warning for now,
> though perhaps a
> 292          * --quiet option will remove these later */
>
> So I went ahead and tried implementing this quiet flag. However, it's
> not very useful for me, because I'm too lazy to add an additional flag
> every time. At least now, I *can* disable these messages... but the
> behavior I described above would be much better.

Hi,

I, personally, like this behaviour of pacman. I can right away see if my 
current mirror is out of date, and such messages are merely informational - 
however what I'd rather suggest is bump version/inform the person who is 
responsible for the PKGBUILD/ package in the official repos - getting it to 
the higher version for everyone who wishes to install it (if it indeed 
incorporates some news, i.e. if it's not a major version bump for example - 
there should be a separate pkg for those sometimes since not everyone plans 
on running the latest, as that doesn't always mean necesarily the greatest).

Cheers,

//m.

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