[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Make the repo-add quiet flag less quiet

aaronmgriffin at gmail.com aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Fri Dec 12 01:02:19 EST 2008


From: Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>

Considering one can easily run:
   repo-add .... >/dev/null
to get only warnings and errors, the -q flag is mostly useless.

Make the -q flag silence only level 2 messages

Signed-off-by: Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>
---
 scripts/repo-add.sh.in |    5 ++---
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/repo-add.sh.in b/scripts/repo-add.sh.in
index 4f9639c..c89e2a5 100644
--- a/scripts/repo-add.sh.in
+++ b/scripts/repo-add.sh.in
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ REPO_DB_FILE=""
 umask 0022
 
 msg() {
-	[ $QUIET -ne 0 ] && return
 	local mesg=$1; shift
 	printf "==> ${mesg}\n" "$@" >&1
 }
@@ -68,8 +67,8 @@ repo-remove will update a package database by removing the package name\n\
 specified on the command line from the given repo database. Multiple\n\
 packages to remove can be specified on the command line.\n\n")"
 	printf "$(gettext "\
-The -q/--quiet flag to either program will force silent running except\n\
-in the case of warnings or errors.\n\n")"
+Use the -q/--quiet flag to minimize output to basic messages, warnings,\n\
+and errors\n\n")"
 	echo "$(gettext "Example:  repo-add /path/to/repo.db.tar.gz pacman-3.0.0.pkg.tar.gz")"
 	echo "$(gettext "Example:  repo-remove /path/to/repo.db.tar.gz kernel26")"
 }
-- 
1.6.0.5



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