FS#27653 - Pacman - manual intervention flag
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Pacman
Opened by Lachlan (padfoot) - Wednesday, 21 December 2011, 06:10 GMT
Last edited by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Monday, 16 January 2012, 22:38 GMT
Opened by Lachlan (padfoot) - Wednesday, 21 December 2011, 06:10 GMT
Last edited by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Monday, 16 January 2012, 22:38 GMT
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Description: I would like to suggest a feature request for
pacman.
Where a package would require manual intervention to install/upgrade (for example: the filesystem 2011.12-2 update), a flag is placed in the package so when an install/upgrade is requested by pacman, it can warn you of the required intervention by reporting a link to the news item on the Arch website. For example: # pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date ......... [ATTENTION] filesystem 2011.12-2 : http://www.archlinux.org/news/filesystem-upgrade-manual-intervention-required/ Or words to that effect. I believe it would be simple to implement as the flag need only exist in a package where required, hence only the code to recognise such a flag and report it needs to be added to pacmam. This would no doubt cut down on the number of useless packaging bug reports ( like I myself did a little earlier ) simply from not reading the news. Cheers. |
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I rater preffer something. like
[Warning] package $(packagename)-$(version that requiere intervention) requiere manual intervention.
and only display this if in the PKGBUILD there is a flag like
Intervention:"$(version that requiere intervention)"
This is more Arch unespecific, also encorage peoples to try look news/forum first before updating