[bug-notifications] [pkgutil 0004045]: RFE: Override configuration parameters on the commandline (via --param?)

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http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4045 
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Reported By:                skayser
Assigned To:                bonivart
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Project:                    pkgutil
Issue ID:                   4045
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            N/A
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   low
Status:                     feedback
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Date Submitted:             2009-11-17 13:30 CET
Last Modified:              2010-03-02 11:03 CET
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Summary:                    RFE: Override configuration parameters on the
commandline (via --param?)
Description: 
For testing and various other purposes i sometimes fiddle with
configuration settings in pkgutil.conf. How about introducing a command
line option to do this on-the-fly?

A somewhat limited use case example to illustrate the RFE:

$ pkgutil -V | grep noncsw
noncsw          true (default: false)

Now to compare only CSW cups packages i would do

$ pkgutil -c cups | grep CSW

With --param i could also do 

$ pkgutil --param noncsw=false -c cups

and have pkgutil filter the pkg list right away. I know, it is longer to
type, but the general ability to change and test settings on the fly feels
helpful to me. I don't know whether this can be easily implemented for all
possible parameters (also future ones) so that this doesn't result in more
work when you implement additional parameters. Wishlist item.
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Relationships       ID      Summary
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has duplicate       0004302 provide a command-line switch for use_g...
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 (0007564) skayser (administrator) - 2010-03-02 11:03
 http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4045#c7564 
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Have to correct myself, -p only doesn't work with pkgliststyle when
pkgliststyle is configured to 1 and I want to set it to 0 on the fly. The
other way round works.

# grep pkgliststyle /etc/opt/csw/pkgutil.conf
pkgliststyle=0
# ~skayser/bin/pkgutil-r210 -p pkgliststyle:1 -V | grep ^pkgliststyle  
pkgliststyle    1 (default: 0)

Maybe that's something that affects more than just pkgliststyle?