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-rw-r--r--lib/libalpm/alpm.h6
-rw-r--r--lib/libalpm/db.c24
-rw-r--r--lib/libalpm/db.h3
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/alpm.h b/lib/libalpm/alpm.h
index 4486da44..d3630385 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/alpm.h
+++ b/lib/libalpm/alpm.h
@@ -997,9 +997,11 @@ alpm_list_t *alpm_db_get_groupcache(alpm_db_t *db);
/** Searches a database with regular expressions.
* @param db pointer to the package database to search in
* @param needles a list of regular expressions to search for
- * @return the list of packages matching all regular expressions on success, NULL on error
+ * @param ret the list of packages matching all regular expressions
+ * @return 0 on success, -1 on error (pm_errno is set accordingly)
*/
-alpm_list_t *alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles);
+int alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles,
+ alpm_list_t **ret);
typedef enum _alpm_db_usage_t {
ALPM_DB_USAGE_SYNC = 1,
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/db.c b/lib/libalpm/db.c
index a443e552..cf4c865f 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/db.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/db.c
@@ -298,12 +298,14 @@ alpm_list_t SYMEXPORT *alpm_db_get_groupcache(alpm_db_t *db)
}
/** Searches a database. */
-alpm_list_t SYMEXPORT *alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles)
+int SYMEXPORT alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles,
+ alpm_list_t **ret)
{
- ASSERT(db != NULL, return NULL);
+ ASSERT(db != NULL && ret != NULL && *ret == NULL,
+ RET_ERR(db->handle, ALPM_ERR_WRONG_ARGS, -1));
db->handle->pm_errno = ALPM_ERR_OK;
- return _alpm_db_search(db, needles);
+ return _alpm_db_search(db, needles, ret);
}
/** Sets the usage bitmask for a repo */
@@ -396,13 +398,13 @@ int _alpm_db_cmp(const void *d1, const void *d2)
return strcmp(db1->treename, db2->treename);
}
-alpm_list_t *_alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles)
+int _alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles,
+ alpm_list_t **ret)
{
const alpm_list_t *i, *j, *k;
- alpm_list_t *ret = NULL;
if(!(db->usage & ALPM_DB_USAGE_SEARCH)) {
- return NULL;
+ return 0;
}
/* copy the pkgcache- we will free the list var after each needle */
@@ -415,12 +417,12 @@ alpm_list_t *_alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles)
if(i->data == NULL) {
continue;
}
- ret = NULL;
+ *ret = NULL;
targ = i->data;
_alpm_log(db->handle, ALPM_LOG_DEBUG, "searching for target '%s'\n", targ);
if(regcomp(&reg, targ, REG_EXTENDED | REG_NOSUB | REG_ICASE | REG_NEWLINE) != 0) {
- RET_ERR(db->handle, ALPM_ERR_INVALID_REGEX, NULL);
+ RET_ERR(db->handle, ALPM_ERR_INVALID_REGEX, -1);
}
for(j = list; j; j = j->next) {
@@ -463,18 +465,18 @@ alpm_list_t *_alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles)
_alpm_log(db->handle, ALPM_LOG_DEBUG,
"search target '%s' matched '%s' on package '%s'\n",
targ, matched, name);
- ret = alpm_list_add(ret, pkg);
+ *ret = alpm_list_add(*ret, pkg);
}
}
/* Free the existing search list, and use the returned list for the
* next needle. This allows for AND-based package searching. */
alpm_list_free(list);
- list = ret;
+ list = *ret;
regfree(&reg);
}
- return ret;
+ return 0;
}
/* Returns a new package cache from db.
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/db.h b/lib/libalpm/db.h
index f17444e6..e7ad98f5 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/db.h
+++ b/lib/libalpm/db.h
@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ alpm_db_t *_alpm_db_new(const char *treename, int is_local);
void _alpm_db_free(alpm_db_t *db);
const char *_alpm_db_path(alpm_db_t *db);
int _alpm_db_cmp(const void *d1, const void *d2);
-alpm_list_t *_alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles);
+int _alpm_db_search(alpm_db_t *db, const alpm_list_t *needles,
+ alpm_list_t **ret);
alpm_db_t *_alpm_db_register_local(alpm_handle_t *handle);
alpm_db_t *_alpm_db_register_sync(alpm_handle_t *handle, const char *treename,
int level);