Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 17:33:57 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_version in C [was: Re: Perl scripts that need rewriting - Progress!] Message-ID: <3CE12055.A4C17E0E@FreeBSD.org> References: <200205091933.g49JXMjV041629@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20020514145039.B13083@shale.csir.co.za> <3CE10EE1.27F9718@FreeBSD.org> <20020514160714.D13083@shale.csir.co.za>
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Jeremy Lea wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:19:29PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> >
> > +++ version/perform.c 14 May 2002 12:41:41 -0000
> > [...]
> > + strlcpy(tmp, PORTS_DIR, PATH_MAX);
> > + strlcat(tmp, "/INDEX", PATH_MAX);
> >
> > I'd suggest snprintf(3)
>
> Yeah. Like I said, it needs a bit of polishing. I tend to do things
> this way while I'm developing because I find it easier to keep track of
> what's going where in the string. There's also a bunch of places where
> the 'l' versions aren't needed...
Tastes differ, granted, but your version is inconsistent with the
existing coding style of pkg_install, where snprintf's are used in
such cases.
>
> > Why noy use matchinstalled() which do something similar?
>
> I looked at it, but it was taking more code to make it work than to
> duplicate it because the -s flag is not a regex or a globing pattern.
> It's a poorly designed interface... Now that it's working I'll look at
> it again and see if I can get it to do the right thing. Simplifying
> working code is a lot easier than building it.
In this case you just need to call matchinstalled(MATCH_ALL, NULL,
NULL) and iterate over results, just like you do with your fts_read()
loop. This should make code a bit cleaner and more compact.
> > + funny:
> > + warnx("This is a very funny looking INDEX!");
> > + return 1;
> >
> > I don't think this is a good choice for an error message.
>
> ;-)
-Maxim
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