[pacman-dev] -Sp is broken?

[Nagy Gabor]

> On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:52:44PM +0200, Nagy Gabor wrote:
> > -Sp simply seems to be broken.
> > If I do pacman -Sp evince, I get the following error:
> > 'error: evince': transaction not initialized
> > error: failed to release transaction (transaction not initialized)
> > 
> 
> See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6812
> 
> git is currently broken because of this commit :
>
http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=pacman.git;a=commit;h=b86479cf9b584c62dbda967902cee2a81678c9ef
> 
> However, after reverting this commit, this command still needs to be run as
> root for working. That wasn't the case with pacman 3.0 ..

Well, I'm pretty sure that we should restructure pacman's option "handling".
Sometimes "rethinking" a big codepart is easier than fixing ~100 flyspray bugs
(as an example, I must mention the current libalpm/sync.c ...)
See also (this method is the most pausible for me; the effects of this would
restructure the source, too):
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-September/009484.html

I don't really understand where the difficulty is. We can loop in the operation
options, and do the requested operations.
Permission handling: Do we really need this?
libalpm will return with an error, if the user hasn't got enough privileges; and
pacman can quit (any may ignore -y). libalpm could also inform the caller
funtion about "Operation not permitted" with an error-type.

Bye, ngaba


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