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<H1>[Mageia-sysadm] [1827] add small maintdb script</H1>
<B>nicolas vigier</B>
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<I>Fri Jul 29 16:55:10 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:
><i> Le mardi 12 juillet 2011 à 01:10 +0200, <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">root at mageia.org</A> a écrit :
</I>><i>
</I>><i> > +function maintset()
</I>><i> > +{
</I>><i> > + checkname "$1"
</I>><i> > + maintfile="$MAINTDBDIR/$1"
</I>><i> > + newmaint="$2"
</I>><i> > + if ! [ -f "$maintfile" ]
</I>><i> > + then
</I>><i> > + echo "Error: package $1 does not exist in maintdb." >&2
</I>><i> > + exit 1
</I>><i> > + fi
</I>><i> > + curmaint=$(cat "$maintfile")
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I think we could avoid using cat with $( < $maintfile )
</I>><i> ( just because cat is evil )
</I>
Ok.
><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> > + if [ a"$newmaint" = "anobody" ]
</I>><i> > + then
</I>><i> > + if [ a"$curmaint" = a"$user" ]
</I>><i>
</I>><i> is the prefix still needed ?
</I>><i> On bash, this doesn't cause any trouble to have "$newmaint" = "nobody",
</I>><i> and outside old rh init script, I didn't see much people using it.
</I>
Yes, it seems it is not needed with "".
><i> > +function maintgetall()
</I>><i> > +{
</I>><i> > + cd "$MAINTDBDIR"
</I>><i> > + for file in *
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Wouldn't this one have problem the day we have too much maintainers ?
</I>
too much packages ?
><i> ( even if "too much" is, according to my test, more than 60000 so this
</I>><i> is just a retorical question )
</I>
According to tune2fs we have 1148096 free inodes, so that should be
enough. I don't know the limit for the "*" expansion.
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