On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:07:49 +0300
George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe that (No packages) is fine when no selectable packages are
found, OTOH ara exists with a non-zero code when is really confised
and can't proceed, for instance ara -no_such_option ; echo $?
Well (No packages).
On Tuesday 16 October 2007, A. Costa wrote:
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:07:49 +0300
George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe that (No packages) is fine when no selectable packages are
found, OTOH ara exists with a non-zero code when is really confised
and can't proceed, for instance
clone 446455 -1
retitle -1 'ara' lacks true/false exit codes, ('grep' style).
severity -1 wishlist
thanks
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:20:32 +0300
George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(I guess this should be a separate 'wishlist' bug.)
Yes please, we should work on that issue at some point.
On Saturday 13 October 2007, A. Costa wrote:
But getting 'ara' to detect that it's installed is tough.
Regexps don't seem to work as per 'man ara':
% ara -short 'Provides=libdvdcss and Status=~/.*install.*/i' ; echo $?
(No packages).
0
# try to find just a space or the
Package: ara
Version: 1.0.20
Severity: normal
Man page says:
% man ara | grep -n -m1 -A1 'fieldspec:/expression/i'
260: fieldspec=~/expression/i (also fieldspec:/expression/i)
261- Same as above, but the regular expression is
case-insensitive.
This works:
%
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