Hi Adam, On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 12:16:31PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > It's certainly not a feature I've ever thought about, but I've no > objections to adding it if people think it would be useful. :)
Well, personally I must say the whole debtags stuff feels like a bit too
much for rc-alert but a way to select packages by language is something
I missed for quite some time. :)
> A few quick comments on the patch, if you don't mind:
Not at all!
> Shoudn't it be --debtag if only one tag is allowed? </picky> There are a
> few other places in the patch where the documentation can't decide
> whether multiple tags are allowed or not.
Right. Before I put much effort in implementing a more complex debtags
sorting whatsoever I just wanted to hear an oppinion about it. I'd
imagine to select packages by more than one debtag, e.g. different
debtag keys are and'd, others or'd:
rc-alert --debtags implemented-in::python,role::plugin,implemented-in::perl
would lead to all packages that are role::plugin and
implemented-in::(python or perl).
But now we're getting somewhere I don't know if I wanna be there. Since
it's more your script: what is it gonna be -- --debtags or --debtag?
> Isn't that just
>
> while (<DEBTAGS>) {
> if (m/^(.+?)(?::?\s*|:\s+(.+?)\s*)$/) {
>
> ?
Yes, of course.
> Apologies if any of the above seems picky. :-)
That's okay for me... :)
Hauke
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