Danek Duvall wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 12:55:44AM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote: > >> I've put a change in place that ensures that "required" attributes >> (which as far as I can tell is just the key_attr from an action class) >> is checked for during fromlist and fromstr, and then raises an >> appropriate ActionError exception. > > There are two categories of "required" attributes. There are the > semantically required attributes, such as key_attr (and, I think, target, > in the case of links), and then a set of other attributes which the actions > currently expect to be there, but could, if desired, make up reasonable > values. This latter group includes owner, group, and mode for filesystem > actions, for instance. > > I'd hoped to get to the attribute synthesis a long time ago, but have > always been a bit worried that it's the wrong idea. We can require them > explicitly now, and always back off on that later.
I'll just deal with key_attr for now then as it suits my publishing API testing. We can work out a better strategy for other attributes later. Thanks, -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
