Re: [gentoo-amd64] Python-updater line 415 error

[Lance Lassetter]

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 00:36 -0400, Frank Peters wrote:
> I run python-updater.  I get this:
>
> command substitution: line 415: syntax error near unexpected token `<'
> command substitution: line 415: `scanelf -qBN ${OLD_SONAME} < <('
>
> Python-updater is a bash script.  Checking the source reveals
> this code at line 415:
>
> broken_libs="$(scanelf -qBN ${OLD_SONAME} < <(
> grep -e '^obj' ${content} | cut -d' ' -f2))"
>
> Now, this line is a nested command substitution.  To fix, just
> replace the second "<" character with "$":
>
>  broken_libs="$(scanelf -qBN ${OLD_SONAME} < $(
> grep -e '^obj' ${content} | cut -d' ' -f2))"
>
>
> This fix removes the error message and allows python-updater to
> check my system, but I now see some other messages which are,
> to me, a bit puzzling.  Here is just one example of many:
>
> /usr/bin/rgb2ycbcr: No such file or directory
>
> The file rgb2ycbcr is there, as are all the other files that are
> marked as missing.
>
> Is python-updater working properly for everyone?  I searched
> google and bugs.gentoo.org for the above line 415 error message but
> found nothing, and I can't believe that no one else has so far
> missed it.  A bug like this should have been spotted immediately,
> yet re-emerging python-updater gives the same error.
>
> Frank Peters
>
>

ran python-updater yesterday and worked fine.  upgraded from 2.5 to 2.6.
i had to run it twice though to catch everything.

Lance