On Aug 10, 2013 1:29 PM, "Pierre Schmitz" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 10.08.2013 03:33, schrieb Dave Reisner: > > This fixes various errors one might encounter when trying to use a > > build root or cachedir with whitespace in it. > > > > Note that the cachedir fix is not a complete one, as pacman's output is > > unreliable (and not meant for parsing here). > > What do you mean by unreliable? And well, it would be best if pacman > would provide some kind of CLI API to get these kind of config options. > We do a similar hack to get the users mirror for example.
The cache dir listing in pacman's output delimits with whitespace, so you're sort of boned if you have a cache dir with whitespace in it. Yeah, there needs to be a better way... > > -- > Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com
