Removing DEVFS support from genkernel since we don't support 2.4 kernels anymore...
[genkernel.git] / gen_funcs.sh
index 80e48830a29401144c85c8c5d80a8a67c320b432..39427401192f520bde4c71243effd80b2a0649ac 100755 (executable)
@@ -139,13 +139,13 @@ print_info() {
 
                if [ "${NEWLINE}" = '0' ]
                then
-                       if [ "${TODEBUGCACHE}" -eq 1 ]; then
+                       if [ "${TODEBUGCACHE}" -eq '1' ]; then
                                DEBUGCACHE="${DEBUGCACHE}${STR}"
                        else
                                echo -ne "${STR}" >> ${LOGFILE}
                        fi      
                else
-                       if [ "${TODEBUGCACHE}" -eq 1 ]; then
+                       if [ "${TODEBUGCACHE}" -eq '1' ]; then
                                DEBUGCACHE="${DEBUGCACHE}${STR}"$'\n'
                        else
                                echo "${STR}" >> ${LOGFILE}
@@ -245,8 +245,8 @@ has_loop() {
        fi
        if [ -e '/dev/loop0' -o -e '/dev/loop/0' -a ${PIPESTATUS[1]} ]
        then
-               # We found devfs or standard dev loop device, assume
-               # loop is compiled into the kernel or the module is loaded
+               # We found a standard dev loop device, assume loop is compiled into the
+               # kernel or the module is loaded
                return 0
        else
                return 1
@@ -428,3 +428,86 @@ copy_image_with_preserve() {
        fi
 }
 
+#
+# Helper function to allow command line arguments to override configuration
+# file specified values and to apply defaults.
+#
+# Arguments:
+#     $1  Argument type:
+#           1  Switch type arguments (e.g., --color / --no-color).
+#           2  Value type arguments (e.g., --debuglevel=5).
+#     $2  Config file variable name.
+#     $3  Command line variable name.
+#     $4  Default.  If both the config file variable and the command line
+#         option are not present, then the config file variable is set to
+#         this default value.  Optional.
+#
+# The order of priority of these three sources (highest first) is:
+#     Command line, which overrides
+#     Config file (/etc/genkernel.conf), which overrides
+#     Default.
+#
+# Arguments $2 and $3 are variable *names*, not *values*.  This function uses
+# various forms of indirection to access the values.
+#
+# For switch type arguments, all forms of "True" are converted to a numeric 1
+# and all forms of "False" (everything else, really) to a numeric 0.
+#
+# - JRG
+#
+set_config_with_override() {
+       local VarType=$1
+       local CfgVar=$2
+       local OverrideVar=$3
+       local Default=$4
+       local Result
+
+       #
+       # Syntax check the function arguments.
+       #
+       case "$VarType" in
+               1|2)
+                       ;;
+               *)
+                       gen_die "Illegal variable type \"$VarType\" passed to set_config_with_override()."
+                       ;;
+       esac
+
+       if [ -n "${!OverrideVar}" ]
+       then
+               Result=${!OverrideVar}
+               if [ -n "${!CfgVar}" ]
+               then
+                       print_info 5 "  $CfgVar overridden on command line to \"$Result\"."
+               else
+                       print_info 5 "  $CfgVar set on command line to \"$Result\"."
+               fi
+       else
+               if [ -n "${!CfgVar}" ]
+               then
+                       Result=${!CfgVar}
+                       print_info 5 "  $CfgVar set in config file to \"${Result}\"."
+               else
+                       if [ -n "$Default" ]
+                       then
+                               Result=${Default}
+                               print_info 5 "  $CfgVar defaulted to \"${Result}\"."
+                       else
+                               print_info 5 "  $CfgVar not set."
+                       fi
+               fi
+       fi
+
+       if [ "$VarType" -eq "1" ]
+       then
+               if isTrue "${Result}"
+               then
+                       Result=1
+               else
+                       Result=0
+               fi
+       fi
+
+       eval ${CfgVar}=\"${Result}\"
+}
+