Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCHv3 1/2] MEDIUM: misc-functions: Be more quiet when removing non existing INSTALL_MASK

[Zac Medico]

On 04/20/2015 05:31 PM, Bertrand Jacquin wrote:
> On 21/04/2015 00:39, Zac Medico wrote:
>> These are in the master branch now:
>>
>> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=5a1b870fe54ac06f864a648c3ea5cc118f6ce911
>>
>> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=e74e2670e3f043608fced9847e54bdbb19f35169
>>
>
> Thanks for that :)
>
>> I modified the test as follows in order to ensure that it still works
>> with shell globs:
>>
>> if [[ -e "${root}"/${no_inst} || "${root}"/${no_inst} != $(echo
>> "${root}"/${no_inst}) ]] ; then
>
> I do not really understand the use case here, do you have an example ?
>
> Cheers,
>

Well, I don't use INSTALL_MASK myself, so I don't have a real-world
use-case for you. However, it's clear that the code will expand shell
globs, so I preserved that behavior for compatibility.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac