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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-power/nut: ChangeLog nut-2.2.1.ebuild
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:27:03
Message-Id: 20080315192656.5e036e04@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-power/nut: ChangeLog nut-2.2.1.ebuild by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:20:31 -0700
2 Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 06:03 Sun 09 Mar , Rajiv Aaron Manglani (rajiv) wrote:
5 > > 1.1 sys-power/nut/nut-2.2.1.ebuild
6 > >
7 > > file :
8 > > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-power/nut/nut-2.2.1.ebuild?rev=1.1&view=markup
9 > > plain:
10 > > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-power/nut/nut-2.2.1.ebuild?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain
11 >
12 > > src_install() {
13 >
14 > ...
15 >
16 > > eval fperms 0640 ${NUT_PRIVATE_FILES}
17 > > eval fowners root:nut ${NUT_PRIVATE_FILES}
18 > >
19 > > eval fperms 0644 ${NUT_PUBLIC_FILES}
20 > > eval fowners root:root ${NUT_PUBLIC_FILES}
21 >
22 > ...
23 >
24 > > pkg_postinst() {
25 > > # this is to ensure that everybody that installed old
26 > > versions still has # correct permissions
27 > >
28 > > chown nut:nut "${ROOT}"/var/lib/nut 2>/dev/null
29 > > chmod 0700 "${ROOT}"/var/lib/nut 2>/dev/null
30 > >
31 > > eval chown root:nut "${ROOT}"${NUT_PRIVATE_FILES}
32 > > 2>/dev/null eval chmod 0640 "${ROOT}"${NUT_PRIVATE_FILES}
33 > > 2>2>/dev/null
34 > >
35 > > eval chown root:root "${ROOT}"${NUT_PUBLIC_FILES}
36 > > 2>/dev/null eval chmod 0644 "${ROOT}"${NUT_PUBLIC_FILES} 2>/dev/null
37 >
38 > Is there any reason why eval is used in either of these places?
39
40 Or indeed why potentially useful debugging information is redirected
41 to /dev/null... :)
42
43
44 Kind regards,
45 JeR
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