[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#708163: Bug#708163: Bug#708163: schroot should treat options after non-option as non-option

[Roger Leigh]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:40:54PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Roger Leigh writes ("Re: [buildd-tools-devel] Bug#708163: schroot should treat options after non-option as non-option"):
> > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 05:43:40PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > $ schroot -c unstable-i386 id -u
> > > E: required parameter is missing in 'user'
> > > 
> > > This is a bit silly.  It would be better if schroot stopped processing
> > > schroot options as soon as it saw the command (ie, the first
> > > non-option).
> > 
> > You can use -- to separate options from non-options explicitly.
> 
> Sorry, yes, I should have said I knew that.
> 
> >  We are using libboost-program-options for the options parsing; it
> > does provide for customising the parsing process somewhat, but I'm
> > not certain how difficult (or possible) such a change will be.  I'll
> > certainly look into it.
> 
> Hmm.  I had a look at the online docs for Boost 1.53.0 and it doesn't
> seem to be able to do it.  The obvious place for it would be one of
> the flags in boost::program_options::command_line_style::style_t.  I
> also looked for a way to use a positional parameter callback to abort
> the command line processing loop, but didn't find out.
> 
> Should I file a wishlist bug against the boost library and set this
> one to block it ?

That would be appreciated, thanks.  Sorry for the delay on my part.


Regards,
Roger

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