[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Don't print "local/" with -Qs

[Dan McGee]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
>>> >From 1572535efe01dfae1f28b74862dec21f2102f165 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu>
>>> Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 14:08:04 +0200
>>> Subject: [PATCH] Don't print "local/" with -Qs
>>>
>>> See FS#14642.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu>
>>
>> Any objections to this? It is a longstanding "tradition" that we've
>> had the local prefix, so I want to make sure this isn't a mistake, as
>> this will definitely affect parsing of -Qs information as it can no
>> longer be treated the same as -Ss information.
>>
>> I expressed my thoughts in the bug report that we keep it as is; I'll
>> await a few more opinions before taking this route. If we do take it,
>> I expect someone to fix the pacsearch script in contrib. :)
>>
>
> It always bugged me that pacman outputs package names in a format that
> it cannot handle itself.
>
> If we want to keep the local/ prefix, we should also support it on
> every local operations. Not only -R, but also -Q, -Qi, etc..
>
> I am curious about the operations on sync packages though, for example :
> does pacman -Si handle the repo/ format?

Yes, definitely- all -S operations do so:

dmcgee at galway ~
$ pacman -Si testing/mlocate
Repository     : testing
Name           : mlocate
Version        : 0.22-1
<snip>

dmcgee at galway ~
$ pacman -Si core/mlocate
Repository     : core
Name           : mlocate
Version        : 0.21.1-1
<snip>