Currently if no filename is given to the export command the archive will be written to stdout, which is less than helpful as default behaviour. Change it to generate a suitable default filename. Export to stdout can still be requested explicitly by giving a filename of '-'. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/osinfo-db-export.c | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/osinfo-db-export.c b/tools/osinfo-db-export.c index a789dfe..0d6d060 100644 --- a/tools/osinfo-db-export.c +++ b/tools/osinfo-db-export.c @@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ gint main(gint argc, gchar **argv) gboolean local = FALSE; gboolean system = FALSE; const gchar *root = ""; - const gchar *archive = NULL; + gchar *archive = NULL; const gchar *custom = NULL; const gchar *version = NULL; gchar *autoversion = NULL; @@ -477,7 +477,11 @@ gint main(gint argc, gchar **argv) version = autoversion; } prefix = g_strdup_printf("osinfo-db-%s", version); - archive = argc == 2 ? argv[1] : NULL; + if (argc == 2) { + archive = argv[2]; + } else { + archive = g_strdup_printf("%s.tar.xz", prefix); + } dir = osinfo_db_get_path(root, user, local, system, custom); if (osinfo_db_export_create(prefix, version, dir, archive, verbose) < 0) goto error; @@ -485,6 +489,7 @@ gint main(gint argc, gchar **argv) ret = EXIT_SUCCESS; error: + g_free(archive); g_free(autoversion); g_free(prefix); if (dir) { @@ -506,7 +511,7 @@ osinfo-db-export - Export to a osinfo database archive =head1 SYNOPSIS -osinfo-db-export [OPTIONS...] ARCHIVE-FILE +osinfo-db-export [OPTIONS...] [ARCHIVE-FILE] =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -540,6 +545,9 @@ If run by a privileged account (ie root), the B<local> database location will be used by default, otherwise the B<user> location will be used. +If no B<ARCHIVE-FILE> path is given, an automatically generated +filename will be used, taking the format B<osinfo-db-$VERSION.tar.xz>. + =head1 OPTIONS =over 8 -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ Libosinfo mailing list Libosinfo@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libosinfo