On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:03 PM, James Rayner <[email protected]> wrote: > The aim of this is to alert a user to system/package breaking updates > before they happen and before they approve the sync install. This is > intended primarily for kernel/initscripts/pacman, etc updates when > things could go really wrong and need to be known beforehand. Example > output below. > > This adds an alert="" option to the PKGBUILD. This entry is then > stored in the package and then the db with repo-add. On a pacman sync > operation if any has an alert message it will be displayed before > "Proceed with installation" > > This is a really basic implementation that I'm sure could be brushed > up, as I've not used C for a while. However the pacman code is very > clean and easy to read, so that made it pretty trivial to add. > > There's an example repo with one package "alert" at > http://mess.iphitus.org/alert-test/ > > The PKGBUILD for the aforementioned package: > http://mess.iphitus.org/alert-test/PKGBUILD > > Attached patch is against latest git. > > James >
We also had request of displaying messages at the end of a transaction : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12861 and request to move displaying of messages from scriptlets to pkgbuild : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/1571 Should we think about a more general approach here ?
