From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1363413800E for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:09:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF489E00C2; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:08:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86323E00C2 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:08:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sera-17.lan (169-136.203-62.cust.bluewin.ch [62.203.136.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: sera) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7C1401B4013 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:08:47 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:08:41 +0200 From: Ralph Sennhauser To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Mention xargs? Message-ID: <20120812120841.043b6ef1@sera-17.lan> In-Reply-To: <20519.28578.237424.284438@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <20519.28578.237424.284438@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Organization: Gentoo Linux X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Package Manager Specification discussions X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f8abb749-7933-4c9e-a0b8-36a16c818b83 X-Archives-Hash: fb211f149a9083122b7b5885a58b9d59 On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:56:02 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > When preparing the list of EAPI 5 features for the upcoming council > meeting, I noticed that the eapi-5 branch mentions only GNU find [1] > whereas the corresponding bug mentions both find and xargs [2]. > > Shouldn't we mention xargs, too? Usually I see xargs used as 'find | xargs ' which can easily be handled by find alone. So, not sure we want to mandate xargs at all. > > Ulrich > > [1] > > [2] > > From f9741fb09b19bb0cf232254368617c31f3c22898 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: =?UTF-8?q?Ulrich=20M=C3=BCller?= > Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:55:51 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] Require xargs in addition to find. > > --- > ebuild-env-commands.tex | 4 ++-- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/ebuild-env-commands.tex b/ebuild-env-commands.tex > index 1129fa6..d24fc81 100644 > --- a/ebuild-env-commands.tex > +++ b/ebuild-env-commands.tex > @@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ The following commands must always be available in > the ebuild environment: \item \t{sed} must be available, and must > support all forms of invocations valid for GNU sed version 4 or later. > \item \t{patch} must be available, and must support all inputs valid > for GNU patch. -\item \t{find} must be available, and must support > all forms of invocations valid for GNU find > - version 4.4 or later. Only for EAPIs listed in > table~\ref{tab:system-commands-table} as +\item \t{find} and > \t{xargs} must be available, and must support all forms of > invocations valid for > + GNU find version 4.4 or later. Only for EAPIs listed in > table~\ref{tab:system-commands-table} as requiring GNU find. > \featurelabel{gnu-find} \end{compactitem} >