Re: [PATCH] pacman: send 'loading packages...' msg to stderr

[Allan McRae]

On 27/2/22 11:19, Jean Raby wrote:
This allows for parsing the output of:
     pacman --upgrade --print-format '<format>' pkg.zst
without having to remove info messages from it.


This is not the correct approach as the message is not an error.

I would consider a patch that silenced that output if --print was being 
used.

Allan

Signed-off-by: Jean Raby <j...@raby.sh>
---
  src/pacman/upgrade.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/pacman/upgrade.c b/src/pacman/upgrade.c
index 0691856f..6f70b115 100644
--- a/src/pacman/upgrade.c
+++ b/src/pacman/upgrade.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ int pacman_upgrade(alpm_list_t *targets)
                goto fail_free;
        }
  
-	printf(_("loading packages...\n"));
+       fprintf(stderr,_("loading packages...\n"));
        retval |= load_packages(local_targets, 
alpm_option_get_local_file_siglevel(config->handle));
        retval |= load_packages(fetched_files, 
alpm_option_get_remote_file_siglevel(config->handle));