[pacman-dev] [PATCH] remove --force option from repo-add.

[Chantry Xavier]

The force option should only be specified in the PKGBUILD with
options=(force).
This information should be handled like any other meta info, and there is no
need to have a special repo-add option for it.

Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com>
---
 scripts/repo-add.sh.in |   13 +++----------
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/repo-add.sh.in b/scripts/repo-add.sh.in
index efd3bc0..297eb15 100644
--- a/scripts/repo-add.sh.in
+++ b/scripts/repo-add.sh.in
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ export TEXTDOMAINDIR='@localedir@'
 myver='@PACKAGE_VERSION@'
 confdir='@sysconfdir@'
 
-FORCE=0
 REPO_DB_FILE=""
 
 # ensure we have a sane umask set
@@ -54,14 +53,10 @@ error() {
 # print usage instructions
 usage() {
 	printf "repo-add (pacman) %s\n\n" "$myver"
-	printf "$(gettext "Usage: %s <path-to-db> [--force] <package> ...\n\n")" "$0"
+	printf "$(gettext "Usage: %s <path-to-db> <package> ...\n\n")" "$0"
 	printf "$(gettext "\
 repo-add will update a package database by reading a package file.\n\
 Multiple packages to add can be specified on the command line.\n\n")"
-	printf "$(gettext "\
-The --force flag will add a 'force' entry to the sync database, which\n\
-tells pacman to skip its internal version number checking and update\n\
-the package regardless.\n\n")"
 	echo "$(gettext "Example:  repo-add /path/to/repo.db.tar.gz pacman-3.0.0.pkg.tar.gz")"
 }
 
@@ -209,7 +204,7 @@ db_write_entry()
 	[ -n "$builddate" ] && echo -e "%BUILDDATE%\n$builddate\n" >>desc
 	[ -n "$packager" ] && echo -e "%PACKAGER%\n$packager\n" >>desc
 	write_list_entry "REPLACES" "$_replaces" "desc"
-	[ $FORCE -eq 1 -o -n "$force" ] && echo -e "%FORCE%\n" >>desc
+	[ -n "$force" ] && echo -e "%FORCE%\n" >>desc
 
 	# create depends entry
 	msg2 "$(gettext "Creating 'depends' db entry...")"
@@ -290,9 +285,7 @@ gstmpdir=$(mktemp -d /tmp/repo-add.XXXXXXXXXX) || (\
 success=0
 # parse arguments
 for arg in "$@"; do
-	if [ "$arg" == "--force" -o "$arg" == "-f" ]; then
-		FORCE=1
-	elif [ -z "$REPO_DB_FILE" ]; then
+	if [ -z "$REPO_DB_FILE" ]; then
 		REPO_DB_FILE=$(readlink -f "$arg")
 		if ! test_repo_db_file; then
 			error "$(gettext "Repository file '%s' is not a proper pacman database.")" "$REPO_DB_FILE"
-- 
1.5.4.rc4