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

[Allan McRae]

Xavier wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Allan McRae <mcrae_allan at hotmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Sebastian Nowicki wrote:
>>     
>>> --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.
>>>
>>>       
>
> Sounds good, thanks!
>
>   
>> I would be in favour of a shortened version of --noconfirm.  I use
>> "makepkg -s" a lot and often wander away while the dependencies install
>> only to come back and find pacman asking for confirmation about
>> installing the makedepends.
>>
>> However, --noprogressbar would be a bit strange in makepkg.conf given it
>> is really a pacman option.
>>
>>     
>
> No problem, so here is the current list :
>
> --source            = -S
> --noconfirm        =  -n
> --noprogressbar = -N
> --holdver            = -H
> --forcever           = ?
> --asroot             = ?
>   

Hmmm,  --forcever needs to be added to the usage function, which leads 
me to suspect possibly the man page too but I haven't checked.  I have 
put tidying this up in my TODO list but I will wait until the shortened 
versions are fully chosen.

We could use -O for --asroot because root tends to have user id 0.  
Entirely obscure but it is the best I can come up with.
We can use -F for --forcever and the INFAKEROOT option is only used 
internally to makepkg and thus can use a slightly more obscure abbreviation.

Allan