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List:       gentoo-portage-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCHv3 1/2] MEDIUM: misc-functions: Be more quiet when removing non exist
From:       Zac Medico <zmedico () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2015-04-23 1:43:26
Message-ID: 55384E3E.9020104 () gentoo ! org
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On 04/22/2015 04:44 PM, Bertrand Jacquin wrote:
> On 21/04/2015 01:37, Zac Medico wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Sorry Zac, I was speaking about the $(echo ..), what does it bring to
> use it here ?
> 
> Cheers,
> 

It's a way to check the result of check the result of shell glob
expansion. The rm call that follows will be subject to identical expansion.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac

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