dgit: conflg handling: Undocumented --config-lookup-explode= feature.

[dgit.git] / dgit

diff --git a/dgit b/dgit
index 3ffcf77a7198501037d8566ee8a96722b2ef2b58..e4987ae7984633827e6b4b7a1e919c73d0a8b511 100755 (executable)
--- a/dgit
+++ b/dgit
@@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ sub cfg {
        "$us: distro or suite appears not to be (properly) supported";
 }
 
-sub access_basedistro () {
+sub access_basedistro__noalias () {
     if (defined $idistro) {
        return $idistro;
     } else {   
@@ -711,6 +711,12 @@ sub access_basedistro () {
     }
 }
 
+sub access_basedistro () {
+    my $noalias = access_basedistro__noalias();
+    my $canon = cfg("dgit-distro.$noalias.alias-canon",'RETURN-UNDEF');
+    return $canon // $noalias;
+}
+
 sub access_nomdistro () {
     my $base = access_basedistro();
     my $r = cfg("dgit-distro.$base.nominal-distro",'RETURN-UNDEF') // $base;
@@ -6314,6 +6320,11 @@ sub parseopts () {
                # undocumented, for testing
                push @ropts, $_;
                $need_split_build_invocation = 1;
+           } elsif (m/^--config-lookup-explode=(.+)$/s) {
+               # undocumented, for testing
+               push @ropts, $_;
+               $gitcfgs{cmdline}{$1} = 'CONFIG-LOOKUP-EXPLODE';
+               # ^ it's supposed to be an array ref
            } elsif (m/^(--[-0-9a-z]+)(=|$)/ && ($oi = $valopts_long{$1})) {
                $val = $2 ? $' : undef; #';
                $valopt->($oi->{Long});