Am Freitag, den 11.09.2009, 11:32 +0200 schrieb Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration | Westermann GmbH ]: > Hello Xavier, > > Am Freitag, den 11.09.2009, 11:17 +0200 schrieb Xavier: > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration > > | Westermann GmbH ] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This patch adds the ability to use Include filenames > > > containing wildcards and also expands the tilde to the > > > homedirectory of the executing user. > > > > > > Added a headercheck for glob.h to configure.ac. > > > Added a globfree call to clean up the struct properly. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Marc-A. Dahlhaus <[email protected]> > > > > Can you provide an use-case / examples justifying this ? > > we use it to add repos or options by installing files > into /etc/pacman/conf.d/ with a name of testing.conf for a repo called > testing for example and only add > > Include = /etc/pacman/conf.d/*.conf > > in /etc/pacman/pacman.conf.
Forgot to add that this way the pacman.conf is decoupled of the repositories and can be replaced on updates even if a user added another repo. This was my main motivation in adding the support for globing here. > > I am not sure we want/need these features, and I am not sure it's a > > good idea to have non-static mirrors (depending on the user executing, > > depending on the files matching the glob, etc) > > I thought of options like ShowSize and TotalDownload... > > But as pacman has to be executed by root for -S the tilde expanding > looks like a pointless thing to do in the end... > But glob could do it so it is there for free. > > But i don't get your point. > > Isn't the configuration for pacman a distro thing and the packagers of > the pacman package should know what they do? If they don't want to use > it on arch the don't have to add it to there configuration files. > > We use it for our inhouse cluster-distro, it's useful and it works good > for us. > > > Marc > > > > > -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Marc - A. Dahlhaus Administration Westermann GmbH Tel: 04252 399 87 Am Gaswerk 3 Fax: 04252 399 45 27305 Bruchhausen-Vilsen Mail: [email protected] Geschaeftsfuehrer: Hermann Westermann Handelsregister: Walsrode, HRB 110518
