allow procedures to add stuff to usage output

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/aif.sh b/src/aif.sh
index 2386992..3a20e2e 100755
--- a/src/aif.sh
+++ b/src/aif.sh
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ If the procedurename is prefixed with '<modulename>/' it will be loaded from use
 Available procedures on the filesystem:
 `find /home/arch/aif/core/procedures -type f`\n
 `find /home/arch/aif/user/*/procedures -type f 2>/dev/null`" 
+	[ -z "$procedure" ] && msg="$msg\nProcedure ($procedure) specific options:\n$var_ARGS_USAGE"
+
 	echo -e "$msg"
 
 }
@@ -275,8 +277,9 @@ procedure=
 # in that case -p needs to be the first option, but that's doable imho
 # an alternative would be to provide an argumentstring for the profile. eg aif -p profile -a "-a a -b b -c c"
 
-var_OPTS_STRING="" # you can override this variable in your procedure.
-
+# you can override these variables in your procedures
+var_OPTS_STRING=""
+var_ARGS_USAGE=""
 
 # Processes args that were not already matched by the basic rules.
 process_args ()
diff --git a/src/core/procedures/automatic b/src/core/procedures/automatic
index cdda847..ad279ce 100644
--- a/src/core/procedures/automatic
+++ b/src/core/procedures/automatic
@@ -4,11 +4,14 @@
 
 # In theory, the only manual thing should maybe be configuring the runtime network
 # TODO: I don't know if you can do non-interactive dm_crypt stuff.. maybe by pulling luks keyfiles from svn/git/..?
+# TODO: check_is_in <somestuff> runtime packages and check needed args, if not known ask (eg svn password)
 
 depend_module yaourt
 depend_procedure core base
 
 var_OPTS_STRING="c:"
+var_ARGS_USAGE="-c <config>: Specify a configfile (profile) to be used (Mandatory)" # TODO: don't check if the option is specified, but do checking on all variables that we need
+
 process_args ()
 {
 	[ "$1" = '-c' ]