On 06/01/18 at 11:41am, Joey Pabalinas wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 05:13:37PM -0400, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> > If we're going to allow absolute paths, should we not be removing the
> > full root, not just '/'?
>
> Did you mean strip out the sysroot in the event it happens to not be "/"? In
>
On 06/01/18 at 12:44pm, Joey Pabalinas wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 05:45:11PM -0400, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> > Not the sysroot, rootdir. I don't see how that would be overly
> > complex, we do it in other places already.
>
> Isn't --root deprecated in favor of --sysroot though? (according
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 06:56:13PM -0400, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> Sort of. The current --root option is a confusing mess that nobody
> actually understands, so it will go away at some point. The
> underlying libalpm rootdir setting isn't going anywhere though, and,
> in the future, will be
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 05:13:37PM -0400, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> If we're going to allow absolute paths, should we not be removing the
> full root, not just '/'?
Did you mean strip out the sysroot in the event it happens to not be "/"? In
my opinion, although doable, the logic you'd need to add
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 05:45:11PM -0400, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> Not the sysroot, rootdir. I don't see how that would be overly
> complex, we do it in other places already.
Isn't --root deprecated in favor of --sysroot though? (according to the
manpage at least).
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Cheers,
Joey Pabalinas
On 05/29/18 at 02:28pm, Allan McRae wrote:
> The arguments for the --overwrite option requried the user to strip the
> leading "/" from the path. It is more intuative to provide the whole
> path and have pacman strip the leading "/" before passing to the
> backend.
>
> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae
On 06/01/2018 05:50 AM, Joey Pabalinas wrote:
> Allow both `pacman -S foo --overwrite /usr/lib/foo.sh` and
> `pacman -S foo --overwrite usr/lib/foo.sh` (with any number
> of leading / ignored) to semantically mean the same thing.
Already done in
On Tue May 29 04:28:28 UTC 2018, Allan McRae wrote:
> The arguments for the --overwrite option requried the user to strip the
> leading "/" from the path. It is more intuative to provide the whole
> path and have pacman strip the leading "/" before passing to the
> backend.
>
> ...
>
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