[pacman-dev] [PATCH] repo-add: fix db creation one last time

[Dave Reisner]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 01:01:35PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 29/06/11 10:58, Dan McGee wrote:
> >We fubar-ed this pretty good.
> >
> >1. The whole old/new move shuffle was totally busted if you used a
> >relative path to your database, as we would just build the database in
> >place.
> >2. Our prior temp directory layout had the database files extracted
> >directly into it. When we tried to create a xxx.db.tar.gz file in this
> >same directory, due to the fact that we were no longer using a shell
> >wildcard, we tried to include the db in ourself, which is a big failure.
> >Fix all this by extracting to tree/ so we can have a clean top-level
> >temp directory.
> >3. Fix the inclusion of the './' directory entry; ensure the regex
> >prunes both leading paths of '.' as well as './'.
> >
> >Where is that test suite again?
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Dan McGee<dan at archlinux.org>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Allan
> 
> Updating my repo without this patch resulted in fun!
> 
> 

I think we axed this as well. The tarball gets all out of order
(directories first), so we're going to go with my original patch that
Dan Nack'ed, which was to use "ugly" bash...

(shopt -s nullgob; files=(*); ((${#files[*]})))

almost lispy...

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