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FS#23370 - "pacman -v" and "pacman --debug" alone no longer produce useful output
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Pacman
Opened by Ray (ataraxia) - Sunday, 20 March 2011, 20:05 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 21 March 2011, 13:23 GMT
Opened by Ray (ataraxia) - Sunday, 20 March 2011, 20:05 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 21 March 2011, 13:23 GMT
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DetailsAs of 3.5.0, running just plain "pacman -v" or "pacman --debug" no longer produce the normal output of these flags before erroring out for a lack of operation to perform. At least pkgfile from pkgtools relied on the earlier behavior, as it parsed the output.
Under 3.4.x: $ pacman -v Root : / Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf DB Path : /var/lib/pacman/ Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ Lock File : /var/lib/pacman/db.lck Log File : /var/log/pacman.log Targets : None error: no operation specified (use -h for help) $ pacman --debug debug: config: attempting to read file /etc/pacman.conf debug: config: new section 'options' debug: config: HoldPkg: pacman debug: config: HoldPkg: glibc ......... debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/multilib/os/x86_64 debug: config: finished parsing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist debug: config: finished parsing /etc/pacman.conf debug: registering local database error: no operation specified (use -h for help) debug: unregistering database 'local' debug: unregistering database 'core' debug: unregistering database 'extra' debug: unregistering database 'community' debug: unregistering database 'multilib' Under 3.5: $ pacman -v error: no operation specified (use -h for help) $ pacman --debug error: no operation specified (use -h for help) |
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Closed by Allan McRae (Allan)
Monday, 21 March 2011, 13:23 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: git commit fd3acff5
Monday, 21 March 2011, 13:23 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: git commit fd3acff5
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) -
Sunday, 20 March 2011, 20:24 GMT
I still don't know how I feel about this change, but this will restore the old behavior. Once again, relying on this in any shape or form is highly discouraged.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) -
Monday, 21 March 2011, 05:13 GMT
@Allan: thoughts on this?
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) -
Monday, 21 March 2011, 05:19 GMT
I think the old behaviour is more along the lines of what I would expect. So I say apply that patch... even though there is no guarantee about the format of the output in any future release.
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