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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: Bertrand Jacquin <bertrand@×××××××.bzh>, gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCHv3 1/2] MEDIUM: misc-functions: Be more quiet when removing non existing INSTALL_MASK
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 01:43:30
Message-Id: 55384E3E.9020104@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCHv3 1/2] MEDIUM: misc-functions: Be more quiet when removing non existing INSTALL_MASK by Bertrand Jacquin
1 On 04/22/2015 04:44 PM, Bertrand Jacquin wrote:
2 > On 21/04/2015 01:37, Zac Medico wrote:
3 >> On 04/20/2015 05:31 PM, Bertrand Jacquin wrote:
4 >>> On 21/04/2015 00:39, Zac Medico wrote:
5 >>>> These are in the master branch now:
6 >>>>
7 >>>> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=5a1b870fe54ac06f864a648c3ea5cc118f6ce911
8 >>>>
9 >>>>
10 >>>> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=e74e2670e3f043608fced9847e54bdbb19f35169
11 >>>>
12 >>>>
13 >>>
14 >>> Thanks for that :)
15 >>>
16 >>>> I modified the test as follows in order to ensure that it still works
17 >>>> with shell globs:
18 >>>>
19 >>>> if [[ -e "${root}"/${no_inst} || "${root}"/${no_inst} != $(echo
20 >>>> "${root}"/${no_inst}) ]] ; then
21 >>>
22 >>> I do not really understand the use case here, do you have an example ?
23 >>>
24 >>> Cheers,
25 >>>
26 >>
27 >> Well, I don't use INSTALL_MASK myself, so I don't have a real-world
28 >> use-case for you. However, it's clear that the code will expand shell
29 >> globs, so I preserved that behavior for compatibility.
30 >
31 > Sorry Zac, I was speaking about the $(echo ..), what does it bring to
32 > use it here ?
33 >
34 > Cheers,
35 >
36
37 It's a way to check the result of check the result of shell glob
38 expansion. The rm call that follows will be subject to identical expansion.
39 --
40 Thanks,
41 Zac