[bug-sourceinstall] [patch #6333] patch for sourceinstall/options.c needed

[Jorma Karvonen]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?6333>

                 Summary: patch for sourceinstall/options.c needed
                 Project: GNU Source Installer
            Submitted by: jormak
            Submitted on: Thursday 12/06/2007 at 23:20
                Category: None
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

The following arrays should be replaced by some other solution, because
gettext ( ". show brief command line help" ) type solutions cannot be used.

struct option_data action_list[] = {
    {'h', "help", {0}, {0}, 0, ". show brief command line help"},
    {'V', "version", {0}, {0}, 0, ". show program version"},
    {'l', "list", {0}, {0}, 0,
     ". list all existing packages; if PACKAGE_NAME is specified, it is
treated as a regular expression string, and only matching package names are
listed"},
    {'a', "add", {"FILENAME", 0}, {0, 0}, 0,
     ". add new source package from FILENAME; the package name will be taken
from the top source directory by default, or from PACKAGE_NAME if
specified"},
    {'r', "remove", {0}, {0}, 0,
     ". remove package PACKAGE_NAME completely"},
    {'c', "check", {0}, {0}, 0,
     ". show and validate package PACKAGE_NAME information"},
    {'g', "upgrade", {"OLD_PACK", "FILENAME", 0}, {0, 0, 0}, 0,
     ". Replace OLD_PACK with a new version built from FILENAME. The new
package name will be taken from the top source directory by default, or from
PACKAGE_NAME if specified"},
    {'i', "install", {0}, {0}, 0,
     ". install known package PACKAGE_NAME from stored source code"},
    {'u', "uninstall", {0}, {0}, 0,
     ". uninstall package PACKAGE_NAME, but do not delete source if
available"},
    {'d', "description", {"STRING", 0}, {0, 0}, 0,
     ". associate first line of STRING to PACKAGE_NAME short description, and
the remaining lines to the long description. If STRING is empty, remove
descriptions from the package. Use your shell quotation characters to submit a
STRING containing newlines"},
    {'n', "rename", {"NEW_NAME", 0}, {0, 0}, 0,
     ". rename existing package PACKAGE_NAME to NEW_NAME"},
    {'X', "export-xml", {"FILENAME", 0}, {0, 0}, 0,
     ". export package PACKAGE_NAME information (or all packages if not
specified) in XML format to FILENAME (use - for stdout)"},
    {'T', "export-text", {"FILENAME", 0}, {0, 0}, 0,
     ". export package PACKAGE_NAME information (or all packages if not
specified) in text format to FILENAME (use - for stdout)"},
    {'L', "export-list", {"FILENAME", 0}, {0, 0}, 0,
     ". export package PACKAGE_NAME installed files list to FILENAME (use -
for stdout)"},
    {'k', "pack", {"FILENAME", 0}, {0, 0}, 0,
     ". build binary tarball from the installed package PACKAGE_NAME, and
save it as FILENAME"},
    {'1', "detect-build", {"FILENAME", 0}, {0, 0}, 0,
     ". scan FILENAME, reporting configure scripts in all subdirectories, and
which autoconf version generated them. This can be useful to choose a build
subdir, and to run on a new, unknown package to decide whether to install
it"},
    {'2', "detect-feats", {"FILENAME", 0}, {0, 0}, 0,
     ". scan FILENAME, reporting and testing the configure script that will
be used (if present), and get the features supported by the generated
Makefile. This detection action is useful to run after '-1', coupled with '-D'
to choose a particular build subdirectory (and thus configure
script/Makefile)"},
    {'3', "detect-opts", {"FILENAME", 0}, {0, 0}, 0,
     ". scan FILENAME for configure options"},
    {0, 0, {0}, {0}, 0, 0}
};

struct option_data option_list[] = {
    {'S', "no-source", {0}, {0}, 0,
     ". do not keep source code during installation (not recommended)"},
    {'t', "strip", {0}, {0}, 0,
     ". strip binaries during installation if possible (not recommended)"},
    {'z', "compression", {"FORMAT", 0}, {0, 0}, 0,
     ". use FORMAT as compression. Can assume values gz, bz2, Z"},
    {'C', "configure", {"STRING", 0}, {0, 0}, 2,
     ". (multiple option) force (re)configure of the package, and add STRING
to the configure flags; do not use for specifying installation prefix, or it
will be ignored: see --prefix below for that."},
    {'D', "subdir", {"STRING", 0}, {0, 0}, 0,
     ". use STRING as build subdirectory for the package"},
    {'p', "prefix", {"STRING", 0}, {0, 0}, 0,
     ". specify installation prefix for the package. For other configure-time
options see --configure above"},
    {'f', "force", {0}, {0}, 0,
     ". force execution of the action even when not recommended"},
    {'U', "user", {"STRING", 0}, {0, 0}, 0,
     ". privileged user login to revert to if required [default=] NIY"},
    {'P', "pass", {"STRING", 0}, {0, 0}, 0,
     ". privileged user password to revert to if required [default=] NIY"},
    {'q', "quiet", {0}, {0}, 0,
     ". suppress verbose info on standard output"},
    {'Q', "verbose", {0}, {0}, 0,
     ". send verbose info to standard output"},
    {0, 0, {0}, {0}, 0, 0}
};




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