[pca] pca and nocheckxref flag (-y)

French, David David_French at intuit.com
Tue Dec 14 09:28:47 CET 2010


Thanks, I've probably read that several times and it never registered.
Sometimes I wonder what is happening to my mind as I age... 8-)

	--Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-
> bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Martin Paul
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 12:26 AM
> To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
> Subject: Re: [pca] pca and nocheckxref flag (-y)
> 
> French, David wrote:
> > Martin, is there anyway that --nocheckxref could be changed to allow
> > --nocheckxref=0 or --nocheckxref=1?    I ask as I normally configure
> > pca.conf to set nocheckxref=1.   On occasion, I want to force the
> > download of the latest.  While I can edit the file if I am on the
> > machine, it would be nice to be able to override the config file
from
> > the command line.  Or is this allowed and I am missing something?
> 
> Let me quote the fine manual: :)
> 
>       All boolean options (i.e. those which do not take an
>       argument) can be negated on the command line by specifying
>       --no-option to override settings from configuration files.
>       Version 2.32 or newer of the Getopt::Long module is
>       required. Example: If noreboot=1 is set in pca.conf it can
>       be overridden with --no-noreboot.
> 
> So "pca --no-nocheckxref" should do what you want.
> 
> hth,
> Martin.




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