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4045 regular use feature N/A 2009-11-17 13:30 2010-03-12 15:56
Reporter: skayser Platform:  
Assigned To: bonivart OS:  
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Summary: 0004045: RFE: Override configuration parameters on the commandline (via --param?)
Description: For testing and various other purposes i sometimes fiddle with configuration settings in pkgutil.conf. How about introducing a command line option to do this on-the-fly?

A somewhat limited use case example to illustrate the RFE:

$ pkgutil -V | grep noncsw
noncsw true (default: false)

Now to compare only CSW cups packages i would do

$ pkgutil -c cups | grep CSW

With --param i could also do

$ pkgutil --param noncsw=false -c cups

and have pkgutil filter the pkg list right away. I know, it is longer to type, but the general ability to change and test settings on the fly feels helpful to me. I don't know whether this can be easily implemented for all possible parameters (also future ones) so that this doesn't result in more work when you implement additional parameters. Wishlist item.
Steps To Reproduce:
Additional Information: # pkgutil -v
1.8
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has duplicate 0004302closed bonivart provide a command-line switch for use_gpg configuration option 
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Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2009-11-17 13:30 skayser New Issue
2009-11-17 17:39 bonivart Status new => assigned
2009-11-17 17:39 bonivart Assigned To => bonivart
2010-02-23 17:49 bonivart Relationship added has duplicate 0004302
2010-03-01 16:30 bonivart Note Added: 0007554
2010-03-01 16:31 bonivart Note Added: 0007555
2010-03-01 16:31 bonivart Status assigned => feedback
2010-03-02 11:00 skayser Note Added: 0007563
2010-03-02 11:03 skayser Note Added: 0007564
2010-03-02 18:41 bonivart Note Added: 0007568
2010-03-12 15:56 bonivart Note Added: 0007623
2010-03-12 15:56 bonivart Status feedback => closed
2010-03-12 15:56 bonivart Resolution open => fixed

Notes
(0007554)
bonivart   
2010-03-01 16:29   
r205 contains this feature. Actually adding this option is a good way to hinder option creep since it makes configuration file options accessible from the command line, otherwise people would ask for equivalent command line options all the time, now I can refer them to -p. :-)

Due to how the parsing works these two types are the ways to specify this option (multiples are allowed):

# pkgutil -p use_gpg:false --param=use_md5:false -V

The colon separator is the same as is used when specifying arch and release for the --target option. Options that contain space separated items must be quoted:

# pkgutil -p exclude_pattern:"foo bar" -V

Another way of doing what you want here is to have a custom pkgutil.conf file that you specify with --config. I'm implementing this anyway since it's generic functionality. I have another similar request from 0004302 as well, he accepted this generic solution to his specific request.
(0007555)
bonivart   
2010-03-01 16:31   
See previous note.
(0007563)
skayser   
2010-03-02 11:00   
Cool, thanks for integrating this command line option. Tested with r210 and all the configuration parameters listed below "Configuration" from the pkgutil -V output. Works for all parameters except for pkgliststyle.

# ~skayser/bin/pkgutil-r210 -p pkgliststyle:0 -V | grep ^pkgliststyle
pkgliststyle 1 (default: 0)
# grep Id ~skayser/bin/pkgutil-r210
# $Id: pkgutil 210 2010-03-01 19:16:46Z bonivart $
(0007564)
skayser   
2010-03-02 11:03   
Have to correct myself, -p only doesn't work with pkgliststyle when pkgliststyle is configured to 1 and I want to set it to 0 on the fly. The other way round works.

# grep pkgliststyle /etc/opt/csw/pkgutil.conf
pkgliststyle=0
# ~skayser/bin/pkgutil-r210 -p pkgliststyle:1 -V | grep ^pkgliststyle
pkgliststyle 1 (default: 0)

Maybe that's something that affects more than just pkgliststyle?
(0007568)
bonivart   
2010-03-02 18:41   
It should only affect pkgliststyle. Your override to zero wasn't picked up because it was considered false in the test, I now test if it's been defined regardless of value.

Fix in r211.
(0007623)
bonivart   
2010-03-12 15:56   
Implemented in 1.10.