[pacman-dev] [PATCH] pacman+libalpm: handle search errors

Morgan Adamiec morganamilo at gmail.com
Wed Nov 6 02:11:18 UTC 2019


On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 at 01:44, morganamilo <morganamilo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Previously, pacman treated no matches and an error during search the
> same.
>
> To fix this, alpm_db_search now returns its status as an int and
> instead takes the to be returned list as a param. Allowing front ends to
> easily differentiate between errors and no matches.
>
> Signed-off-by: morganamilo <morganamilo at gmail.com>
>
> diff --git a/lib/libalpm/alpm.h b/lib/libalpm/alpm.h
> index 4486da44..d3630385 100644
> --- a/lib/libalpm/alpm.h
> +++ b/lib/libalpm/alpm.h
> @@ -997,9 +997,11 @@ alpm_list_t *alpm_db_get_groupcache(alpm_db_t *db);
>  /** Searches a database with regular expressions.
>   * @param db pointer to the package database to search in
>   * @param needles a list of regular expressions to search for
> - * @return the list of packages matching all regular expressions on success, NULL on error
> + * @param ret the list of packages matching all regular expressions
> + * @return 0 on success, -1 on error (pm_errno is set accordingly)
>   */
> -alpm_list_t *alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles);
> +int alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles,
> +               alpm_list_t **ret);
>
>  typedef enum _alpm_db_usage_t {
>         ALPM_DB_USAGE_SYNC = 1,
> diff --git a/lib/libalpm/db.c b/lib/libalpm/db.c
> index a443e552..cf4c865f 100644
> --- a/lib/libalpm/db.c
> +++ b/lib/libalpm/db.c
> @@ -298,12 +298,14 @@ alpm_list_t SYMEXPORT *alpm_db_get_groupcache(alpm_db_t *db)
>  }
>
>  /** Searches a database. */
> -alpm_list_t SYMEXPORT *alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles)
> +int SYMEXPORT alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles,
> +               alpm_list_t **ret)
>  {
> -       ASSERT(db != NULL, return NULL);
> +       ASSERT(db != NULL && ret != NULL && *ret == NULL,
> +                       RET_ERR(db->handle, ALPM_ERR_WRONG_ARGS, -1));
>         db->handle->pm_errno = ALPM_ERR_OK;
>
> -       return _alpm_db_search(db, needles);
> +       return _alpm_db_search(db, needles, ret);
>  }
>
>  /** Sets the usage bitmask for a repo */
> @@ -396,13 +398,13 @@ int _alpm_db_cmp(const void *d1, const void *d2)
>         return strcmp(db1->treename, db2->treename);
>  }
>
> -alpm_list_t *_alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles)
> +int _alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles,
> +               alpm_list_t **ret)
>  {
>         const alpm_list_t *i, *j, *k;
> -       alpm_list_t *ret = NULL;
>
>         if(!(db->usage & ALPM_DB_USAGE_SEARCH)) {
> -               return NULL;
> +               return 0;
>         }
>
>         /* copy the pkgcache- we will free the list var after each needle */
> @@ -415,12 +417,12 @@ alpm_list_t *_alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles)
>                 if(i->data == NULL) {
>                         continue;
>                 }
> -               ret = NULL;
> +               *ret = NULL;
>                 targ = i->data;
>                 _alpm_log(db->handle, ALPM_LOG_DEBUG, "searching for target '%s'\n", targ);
>
>                 if(regcomp(&reg, targ, REG_EXTENDED | REG_NOSUB | REG_ICASE | REG_NEWLINE) != 0) {
> -                       RET_ERR(db->handle, ALPM_ERR_INVALID_REGEX, NULL);
> +                       RET_ERR(db->handle, ALPM_ERR_INVALID_REGEX, -1);
>                 }
>
>                 for(j = list; j; j = j->next) {
> @@ -463,18 +465,18 @@ alpm_list_t *_alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles)
>                                 _alpm_log(db->handle, ALPM_LOG_DEBUG,
>                                                 "search target '%s' matched '%s' on package '%s'\n",
>                                                 targ, matched, name);
> -                               ret = alpm_list_add(ret, pkg);
> +                               *ret = alpm_list_add(*ret, pkg);
>                         }
>                 }
>
>                 /* Free the existing search list, and use the returned list for the
>                  * next needle. This allows for AND-based package searching. */
>                 alpm_list_free(list);
> -               list = ret;
> +               list = *ret;
>                 regfree(&reg);
>         }
>
> -       return ret;
> +       return 0;
>  }
>
>  /* Returns a new package cache from db.
> diff --git a/lib/libalpm/db.h b/lib/libalpm/db.h
> index f17444e6..e7ad98f5 100644
> --- a/lib/libalpm/db.h
> +++ b/lib/libalpm/db.h
> @@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ alpm_db_t *_alpm_db_new(const char *treename, int is_local);
>  void _alpm_db_free(alpm_db_t *db);
>  const char *_alpm_db_path(alpm_db_t *db);
>  int _alpm_db_cmp(const void *d1, const void *d2);
> -alpm_list_t *_alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles);
> +int _alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles,
> +               alpm_list_t **ret);
>  alpm_db_t *_alpm_db_register_local(alpm_handle_t *handle);
>  alpm_db_t *_alpm_db_register_sync(alpm_handle_t *handle, const char *treename,
>                 int level);
> diff --git a/src/pacman/package.c b/src/pacman/package.c
> index 35cfcd94..ec6e78fc 100644
> --- a/src/pacman/package.c
> +++ b/src/pacman/package.c
> @@ -518,12 +518,13 @@ void print_groups(alpm_pkg_t *pkg)
>   * @param db the database we're searching
>   * @param targets the targets we're searching for
>   * @param show_status show if the package is also in the local db
> + * @return -1 on error, 0 if there were matches, 1 if there were not
>   */
>  int dump_pkg_search(alpm_db_t *db, alpm_list_t *targets, int show_status)
>  {
>         int freelist = 0;
>         alpm_db_t *db_local;
> -       alpm_list_t *i, *searchlist;
> +       alpm_list_t *i, *searchlist = NULL;
>         unsigned short cols;
>         const colstr_t *colstr = &config->colstr;
>
> @@ -533,7 +534,9 @@ int dump_pkg_search(alpm_db_t *db, alpm_list_t *targets, int show_status)
>
>         /* if we have a targets list, search for packages matching it */
>         if(targets) {
> -               searchlist = alpm_db_search(db, targets);
> +               if(alpm_db_search(db, targets, &searchlist) != 0) {
> +                       return -1;
> +               }
>                 freelist = 1;
>         } else {
>                 searchlist = alpm_db_get_pkgcache(db);
> diff --git a/src/pacman/query.c b/src/pacman/query.c
> index 2b9ee7a6..bdcfc3c1 100644
> --- a/src/pacman/query.c
> +++ b/src/pacman/query.c
> @@ -233,7 +233,15 @@ targcleanup:
>  static int query_search(alpm_list_t *targets)
>  {
>         alpm_db_t *db_local = alpm_get_localdb(config->handle);
> -       return dump_pkg_search(db_local, targets, 0);
> +       int ret = dump_pkg_search(db_local, targets, 0);
> +       if(ret == -1) {
> +               alpm_errno_t err = alpm_errno(config->handle);
> +               pm_printf(ALPM_LOG_ERROR, "search failed: %s\n", alpm_strerror(err));
> +               return 1;
> +       }
> +
> +       return ret;
> +
>  }
>
>  static unsigned short pkg_get_locality(alpm_pkg_t *pkg)
> diff --git a/src/pacman/sync.c b/src/pacman/sync.c
> index 9033cee7..4bdeff7b 100644
> --- a/src/pacman/sync.c
> +++ b/src/pacman/sync.c
> @@ -311,7 +311,15 @@ static int sync_search(alpm_list_t *syncs, alpm_list_t *targets)
>
>         for(i = syncs; i; i = alpm_list_next(i)) {
>                 alpm_db_t *db = i->data;
> -               found += !dump_pkg_search(db, targets, 1);
> +               int ret = dump_pkg_search(db, targets, 1);
> +
> +               if(ret == -1) {
> +                       alpm_errno_t err = alpm_errno(config->handle);
> +                       pm_printf(ALPM_LOG_ERROR, "search failed: %s\n", alpm_strerror(err));
> +                       return 1;
> +               }
> +
> +               found += !ret;
>         }
>
>         return (found == 0);
> --
> 2.23.0
>

I also wouldn't mind some way to get which target caused the error.
But I also don't want to over complicate what I think
should be a trivial function.


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