[pacman-dev] Include globbing - Was: Release plans

[Allan McRae]

On 24/04/10 23:15, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 23/04/10 22:50, Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration | Westermann GmbH
> ] wrote:
>> Am Freitag, den 23.04.2010, 19:32 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae:
>>> On 23/04/10 18:02, Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration | Westermann GmbH
>>> ] wrote:
>>>> The include globbing patch. :)
>>>
>>> Any chance of a flyspray/mailing list link to the patch?
>>
>> Patch:
>> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-March/010550.html
>>
>> Original thread:
>> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2009-September/009355.html
>>
>>
>> Discussion:
>> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2009-October/009711.html
>>
>> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2009-November/010158.html
>>
>> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-March/010551.html
>>
>
> Thanks. I think I have no objection to this patch... The code is fine, I
> am just unsure about the use cases. Mind you, with pacman hooks in the
> future, we might want to have "Include /etc/pacman/hooks/*".
>
> One query, does this handle the case where there is nothing in the
> globbed folder? Is that the GLOB_ABORTED case?

In fact, it looks like it does not handle that case and it is probably 
not a good thing if that is struck.  A case GLOB_NOMATCH with just a 
debug message should be fine.

Allan