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

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Zac Medico posted on Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:37:15 -0700 as excerpted:

> 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.

I do, with shell globs, tho I didn't bother checking the above to see if 
they'd have been affected.

The two install-masks with globs I use here are:

*.la

(Unmasked on libtool itself, since it has a *.la file that other 
package's .configure scripts test for.)

/etc/cron.*/

(I use systemd's timers in place of cron and thus crontablets.)

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