[pacman-dev] [PATCH 3/3] Improve --help switch output for pacman utils

Jason St. John jstjohn at purdue.edu
Mon Jul 22 21:35:38 EDT 2013


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 22/07/13 11:09, Jason St. John wrote:
>> Unify the formatting of the --help switch for pacman utils.
>> All of the pacman utils will now output help text using the following
>> format:
>>
>>   util-name (pacman) v<pacman version>
>>
>>   one line description of util's purpose
>>
>>   Usage: util-name [options]
>>
>>     -b, --bar      whatever --bar does
>>     -f, --foo      whatever --foo does
>>     -h, --help     display this help message
>>
>> Reported-by: Karol Błażewicz <karol.blazewicz at gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn at purdue.edu>
>> ---
>> This commit should address the issues raised by Karol Błażewicz in this mail:
>> https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2013-June/017391.html
>>
>
> Looks fine.   Query for everyone below:
>
>>  src/util/cleanupdelta.c |  9 ++++-----
>>  src/util/pacsort.c      |  5 +++--
>>  src/util/pactree.c      |  7 ++++---
>>  src/util/testdb.c       | 12 +++++-------
>>  src/util/testpkg.c      |  6 +++---
>>  src/util/vercmp.c       | 17 +++++++++--------
>>  6 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/util/cleanupdelta.c b/src/util/cleanupdelta.c
>> index 4f34435..b13d770 100644
>> --- a/src/util/cleanupdelta.c
>> +++ b/src/util/cleanupdelta.c
>> @@ -24,8 +24,6 @@
>>  #include <alpm.h>
>>  #include <alpm_list.h>
>>
>> -#define BASENAME "cleanupdelta"
>> -
>
> It looks like we defined this in dea9b3bc when we stopped using basename
> to output the program name.   Given it is only ever used in one place,
> is there any reason to keep it?
>
>
>

In case it matters, I removed the BASENAME define for testdb, testpkg,
and vercmp too.

Jason


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