[SOLVED] Upgradepkg --root Syntax and Options

Tonus · 04-21-2021, 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

As an aside if the syntax differs between the tools shipped in the pkgtools package that's probably just because they were not initially written at the same time. Anyway change this syntax and 'normalize' it now that so meany people use it since a long time, maybe included in scripts... Aesthetically that could be a good idea, but I doubt that Patrick would do it.

The only secure path I can imagine to deal with such cases would be to have both syntax avaible in all of the pkgtools scripts.

I may be confident enough to submit a patch... for next release to come (16?) :-P

crts · 04-21-2021, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by enorbet

I still have no idea how "--r otherroot" should work or even if it actually does and I find it terribly illogical.

I am not sure why you have so much trouble with this. As has already been stated, upgradepkg does not have a "--root /otherroot" option, only installpkg does. In installpkg those two commands are interchangeable:

Code:

installpkg --root /otherroot package
ROOT=/otherroot installpkg package

If you use both of them

Code:

ROOT=/otherroot installpkg --root /otherroot package

then "--root /otherroot" will take precedence over "ROOT=/otherroot".

Here is the corresponding section in installpkg:

Code:

146 # Parse options:
147 MODE=install # standard text-mode
148 while [ 0 ]; do
149   if [ "$1" = "-warn" -o "$1" = "--warn" ]; then
150     MODE=warn
151     shift 1
152   elif ...

...

184   elif [ "$1" = "-root" -o "$1" = "--root" ]; then
185     if [ "$2" = "" ]; then
186       usage
187       exit
188     fi
189     ROOT="$2"
190     shift 2

All this option does is to set the ROOT variable, which you can also achieve by using "ROOT=/otherroot installpkg ..." in the first place.

HTH.

PS:
It should be "--root /otherroot" or "-root /otherroot" instead of "--r /otherrroot".

enorbet · 04-22-2021, 11:07 PM

Thanks crts, but I thought I explained this and also that even though I may have been overthinking the process, effectively "tilting at windmills", I came to a working conclusion exactly as you noted above and also noticed that when root is redirected, the process can be watched in action.