FS#32951 - [pacman] auto-create dirs inside root path / more descriptive error messages

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Evaggelos Balaskas (ebal) - Monday, 03 December 2012, 19:46 GMT
Last edited by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Saturday, 08 December 2012, 19:00 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Dan McGee (toofishes)
Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

It would be great if all necessaries dirs could be auto-created under root path given pacman option -r, --root <path>

i believe that are three (3) dirs:

var/log
var/lib/pacman &
var/cache/pacman/pkg


Additional info:
* package version(s)
all

* config and/or log files etc.

error msg
error: failed to initialize alpm library (could not find or read directory)

Steps to reproduce:

# pacman -Sy base -r /mnt -v -y
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Closed by  Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Saturday, 08 December 2012, 19:00 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#32996 
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Monday, 03 December 2012, 20:00 GMT
Cache directories are already created for you. The DBPath will never be created automatically because it's sacred. We shouldn't randomly populate a new database because a user mistyped a path. I suspect that we don't care if the log directory exists and forge ahead, but we should probably make this an error as well. And really, our error messages should be more descriptive than they are.

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