[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Allow package to display a brief message before sync install

[Xavier]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:03 PM, James Rayner <iphitus at iphitus.org> wrote:
> The aim of this is to alert a user to system/package breaking updates
> before they happen and before they approve the sync install. This is
> intended primarily for kernel/initscripts/pacman, etc updates when
> things could go really wrong and need to be known beforehand. Example
> output below.
>
> This adds an alert="" option to the PKGBUILD. This entry is then
> stored in the package and then the db with repo-add. On a pacman sync
> operation if any has an alert message it will be displayed before
> "Proceed with installation"
>
> This is a really basic implementation that I'm sure could be brushed
> up, as I've not used C for a while. However the pacman code is very
> clean and easy to read, so that made it pretty trivial to add.
>
> There's an example repo with one package "alert" at
> http://mess.iphitus.org/alert-test/
>
> The PKGBUILD for the aforementioned package:
> http://mess.iphitus.org/alert-test/PKGBUILD
>
> Attached patch is against latest git.
>
> James
>

We also had request of displaying messages at the end of a transaction :
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12861

and request to move displaying of messages from scriptlets to pkgbuild :
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/1571

Should we think about a more general approach here ?