Add `none` value to bpkg-pkg-bindist --recursive option

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/bpkg/pkg-bindist.cli b/bpkg/pkg-bindist.cli
index 2f30f6c..59a98f7 100644
--- a/bpkg/pkg-bindist.cli
+++ b/bpkg/pkg-bindist.cli
@@ -94,14 +94,16 @@ namespace bpkg
        If unspecified, the host architecture is used."
     }
 
-    string --recursive
+    string --recursive = "none"
     {
       "<mode>",
       "Bundle or generate dependencies of the specified packages. The <mode>
        value can be either \cb{auto}, in which case only the required files
        from each dependency package are bundled, \cb{full}, in which case
        all the files are bundled, or \cb{separate}, in which case a separate
-       binary package is generated for each non-system dependency.
+       binary package is generated for each non-system dependency. It can
+       also be \cb{none} which is equivalent to not specifying this option
+       (primarily useful for overriding a previously-specified value).
 
        Specifically, in the \cb{auto} mode any required files, such as shared
        libraries, are pulled implicitly by the \cb{install} build system
diff --git a/bpkg/pkg-bindist.cxx b/bpkg/pkg-bindist.cxx
index 5127f7e..4639746 100644
--- a/bpkg/pkg-bindist.cxx
+++ b/bpkg/pkg-bindist.cxx
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ namespace bpkg
         if      (m == "auto")     rec = recursive_mode::auto_;
         else if (m == "full")     rec = recursive_mode::full;
         else if (m == "separate") rec = recursive_mode::separate;
-        else
+        else if (m != "none")
           dr << fail << "unknown --recursive mode '" << m << "'";
       }
 
@@ -579,9 +579,9 @@ namespace bpkg
     {
       json::stream_serializer s (cout);
 
-      auto member = [&s] (const char* n, const string& v)
+      auto member = [&s] (const char* n, const string& v, const char* d = "")
       {
-        if (!v.empty ())
+        if (v != d)
           s.member (n, v);
       };
 
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ namespace bpkg
         }
         s.end_object (); // os_release
 
-        member ("recursive", o.recursive ());
+        member ("recursive", o.recursive (), "none");
         if (o.private_ ()) s.member ("private", true);
         if (dependent_config) s.member ("dependent_config", true);