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On Friday 05 August 2005 07:21, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Is anyone aware of any outstanding problems with the stricter find |
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> argument ordering required by findutils 4.2.20? xorg is no longer |
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> holding up 4.2.20 going stable -- are there any others? |
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> For those not aware of the problem, find must only be used in the |
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> following form: |
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> find paths program-options search-options actions |
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> Older findutils versions would silently accept most orderings. Newer |
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> versions will either barf or make lots of noise. |
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> (Sidenote: the paths part is mandatory. Current findutils will default |
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> to the current directory if no path is provided, but other |
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> implementations and future findutils versions may exit with an error.) |
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I think portage has a one or two cases of this issue. |
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Jason Stubbs |
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