| Summary: | app-admin/python-updater: Improve handling of options | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP <dhp_gentoo> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Python Gentoo Team <python> |
| Status: | RESOLVED OBSOLETE | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | pacho, rick |
| Priority: | Lowest | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Hey, thanks for the bug report. Regarding 1: The command-line parser could benefit from getopts and the like. Feel free to send a patch :-) Regarding 2: the correct usage is for instance --enable-eclass (short: -ee), not --enable by itself. If you feel that the help text is confusing, feel free to come up with something that is more explanatory. Thanks! You ask me to write patch, and I don't have time to do it. Thus, wontfix. Sorry for noise. Next time I can't provide patch/fix, I won't report the bug. (In reply to comment #2) > You ask me to write patch, and I don't have time to do it. Thus, wontfix. Comment #1 (which was written by a user, not by maintainer) doesn't say that writing of a patch is mandatory. I think that handling of options can be somewhen improved... As a small incremental improvement, it would be really helpful to be able to pass a -q option to emerge. This will avoid having all the interesting output scrolled out of the buffer. (In reply to comment #4) You can already do it: python-updater -- -q Thanks, Arfrever, I stupidly failed to notice that in the man file. |
moon-gen-3 ~ # python-updater -pv python-updater -- Find & rebuild packages broken due to a python upgrade Usage: python-updater [OPTION] Options: -h, --help Print usage -V, --version Print version -p, --pretend Pretend (don't do anything) -v, --verbose Increase verbosity (may be specified multiple times) -o PYVER, --old-version PYVER Set old python version to upgrade from to PYVER -i, --ignore-versions Ignore versions when remerging packages (still respects SLOTs) -P PM, --package-manager PM Use package manager PM, where PM can be one of: * portage (Default) * pkgcore * paludis -c CMD, --command CMD Pipe found packages to command CMD instead of invoking package manager. Only for debug and script use. -eCHECK --enable-CHECK Enable CHECK where CHECK can be one of: * eclass (Disabled by default) * pylibdir (Enabled by default) * soname (Enabled by default) * manual (Enabled by default) -dCHECK --disable-CHECK Disable CHECK. See --enable option for a list of checks See CHECKS section in the manpage for explanations about checks and EXAMPLES section to learn how to use them. unrecognised option: -pv moon-gen-3 ~ # python-updater --enable python-updater -- Find & rebuild packages broken due to a python upgrade Usage: python-updater [OPTION] Options: -h, --help Print usage -V, --version Print version -p, --pretend Pretend (don't do anything) -v, --verbose Increase verbosity (may be specified multiple times) -o PYVER, --old-version PYVER Set old python version to upgrade from to PYVER -i, --ignore-versions Ignore versions when remerging packages (still respects SLOTs) -P PM, --package-manager PM Use package manager PM, where PM can be one of: * portage (Default) * pkgcore * paludis -c CMD, --command CMD Pipe found packages to command CMD instead of invoking package manager. Only for debug and script use. -eCHECK --enable-CHECK Enable CHECK where CHECK can be one of: * eclass (Disabled by default) * pylibdir (Enabled by default) * soname (Enabled by default) * manual (Enabled by default) -dCHECK --disable-CHECK Disable CHECK. See --enable option for a list of checks See CHECKS section in the manpage for explanations about checks and EXAMPLES section to learn how to use them. unrecognised option: --enable moon-gen-3 ~ # 1: python-updater is not a student project; it is a vital part of Gentoo; so, it should comply to the standards of UNIX; standards include to allow compression of arguments "-vp" should be understood as "-v -p". 2: it says to try --enable, but does not accept it; if this option really exists, then, the way to tell about it is unclear. As mplayer user, "python-updater --enable-help" and "python-updater --enable help" were obvious to me ... but did not work either. If the feature really exists, it is not documented properly, and the phrases that tell about it are unclear. Or, it just does not exist at all, and docs should not mention it.