[pacman-dev] [PATCH] pacman/pacman-conf: -i/--is-set switch, returns 0 if option set

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Mon Oct 7 04:38:16 UTC 2019


On 11/9/19 10:29 am, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 9/10/19 2:32 PM, Matthew Sexton wrote:
>> Returns 1 if option not set. Returns 1 with error to stderr if
>> flag does not exist. Case insensitive.
> 
> As discussed on IRC, it seems like this may be easier and more reliable
> to achieve by using exit statuses. Instead of exiting 1 on a missing
> flag, and returning 0 otherwise while printing out the key (or not)...
> 
> Maybe emulate e.g. grep. Return 2 if an error occurred, i.e. missing
> option, and then even without -i, we can return 1 if the option is not set.
> 

How to handle multiple directives?  e.g.

pacman-conf SigLevel LogFile NoColor


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