[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Fix command line argument parsing in makepkg

[Sebastian Nowicki]

On 23/05/2008, at 2:34 AM, Xavier wrote:

> I found an alternative getopt function which might solve our problems,
> but I am not sure we want to explicitly have all this complexity :
> http://www.math.ias.edu/doc/bash-3.0/functions/getoptx.bash
>
> My second favorite way would be to kill all long options. The  
> problem is
> that there are some long only option :
>       --asroot     Allow makepkg to run as root user
>       --holdver    Prevent automatic version bumping for development
> PKGBUILDs
>       --source     Do not build package; generate a source-only  
> tarball
>       --noconfirm      Do not ask for confirmation when resolving
> dependencies
>       --noprogressbar  Do not show a progress bar when downloading  
> files
>
> So for each of these option, we can either :
> 1) find a decent short option to rename it
> 2) kill it totally
> 3) find a replacement, for example a setting in makepkg.conf
>
> What do you think?


--noprogressbar could probably go into makepkg.conf, but I think the  
rest needs to stay. -H could be used for --holdver, -n or -N for -- 
noconfirm (the other could be used for --noprogressbar). -S is  
deprecated so it could be for --source instead. I'm not sure about -- 
asroot. There's also --forcever.

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Sebastian Nowicki