On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, David Rothenberger wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > Dave,
> >
> > Thanks for catching this -- this was a genuine bug. Thanks also for the
> > patch, but I have another one in the pipeline that'll conflict with yours
> > (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2003-q3/msg00105.html>). How about
> > I just resubmit that patch with your changes included?
> >
> > Attached is a new patch, with an updated ChangeLog entry (well, two
> > entries).
>
> Thanks for fixing package_find(), too. I should've checked that myself.
>
> I notice that package_list() prints a message in this case with the -v
> switch, but package_find() does not. My personal pref. is for the
> message, but I'll leave it to you to decide.
>
> Dave
Dave,
Actually, there's a reason for that (and, in fact, it used to be the way
you described, and I changed it). If package_list() looks at a package,
the contents of that package were requested on the command line, and thus,
if the list file is not found, an error message makes sense. On the other
hand, package_find() looks at *all* the packages, so if the list for one
of them is missing (which could happen if the package is empty, for
example), package_find() will (should, IMO) simply ignore it.
Igor
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