On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:50 AM, <me@sebastian-bechtel.info> wrote:

Hi,

when I do a bigger prt-get action (like sysup) and a footprint mismatch occurs, the command exits. Often I don't notice it and when I look for my prt-get to see whether it has finished, I see, that it had stopped after the first package or something like this :-(

I think the footprint checking is a good thing, but I also think, it would be better to handle it different. Exit on mismatch or use -if are both not really the best solution I think.

My preferred solution would be to have a beep when a footprint mismatch is recognized with a continue y/n question to decide what to do.

I think Danny and Jürgen already covered a better way to cope with the problem you see, however if you still feel playing with your idea of having an interactive prompt you can easily do that by writing a wrapper for pkgmk, checking for the error code indicating a footprint mismatch, and then asking the user what to do. You can then configure prt-get to use your wrapper as 'makecommand' as shown in Danny's mail. This way, you can have the behaviour you want without changing any of the existing tools.

HTH, Johannes