[pacman-dev] Potential bug in alpm-hooks; fix provided
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Mon Jan 2 18:20:26 UTC 2017
On 2017-Jan-02, Andrew Gregory wrote with possible deletions:
> On 01/02/17 at 05:10pm, Stefan Klinger wrote:
> > I've noticed that exactly one `Exec` directive is allowed in
> > alpm-hooks(5). Instead, multiple occurrences are silently
> > ignored.
> > I think raising an error would be best
>
> Multiple "assignments" are not going away. Triggers can have multiple
> Targets and forcing people to cram them all on one line is a terrible
> idea. This is also how multi-value options in pacman's configuration
> are parsed.
Ok, if that actually is usual behavior in ini-style files, so be it.
Could we print a warning if information is lost by reassigning Exec?
I have updated my proposal [1] accordingly.
> > ____________________
> > [1] https://github.com/s5k6/pacman/tree/fix-hook-exec
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