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 <[email protected]> --- src/pacman/pacman.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/pacman/pacman.c b/src/pacman/pacman.c index fe54793e..d90a9f6c 100644 --- a/src/pacman/pacman.c +++ b/src/pacman/pacman.c @@ -723,7 +723,16 @@ static int parsearg_upgrade(int opt) config->flags |= ALPM_TRANS_FLAG_FORCE; break; case OP_OVERWRITE_FILES: - parsearg_util_addlist(&(config->overwrite_files)); + { + char *i, *save = NULL; + for(i = strtok_r(optarg, ",", &save); i; i = strtok_r(NULL, ",", &save)) { + /* strip leading "/" before adding to option list */ + while(i[0] == '/') { + i = i + 1; + } + config->overwrite_files = alpm_list_add(config->overwrite_files, strdup(i)); + } + } break; case OP_ASDEPS: config->flags |= ALPM_TRANS_FLAG_ALLDEPS; -- 2.17.0
