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Re: perl 5.10 and rmdir (was: Bug#458143: libpod-simple-perl FTBFS with perl from experimental)



On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:17:16 -0600, Rene Mayorga wrote:

> > Question to the team:
> > Are there any objections to running `packagecheck' [0] against trunk
> > to prepend all rmdirs with "[ ! -d $dir ] ||" (the script also
> > catches the "find -type -d -empty ..." cases)?
> Since this get discussed I already start to use "[ ! -d $dir ] ||"
> approach.

You're not the only one :)
 
> btw, I tested packagecheck, nice work :),

Thanks for testing and the feedback!

> it looks nice, but its matching only "rmdir.*ignore-fail-on-non-empty",
> so after run packagecheck I toked a quick look/grep and there are some
> packages missed because they use "rm -r" instead "rmdir" 

Right, I've been thinking about that, too.

*testing some patterns for grep*

egrep "rm -r.*usr/(lib|share)(/perl5)?$" looks quite good; catches 36
packages with no false positives.

Ok, I've added this to the current search pattern. Thanks for the
hint!

Cheers,
gregor

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