Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Abillity to understand fairly simple shell script is not a > matter of tenure. It is a matter of competence. I am dismayed that a > fairly bland invocation of find seems opaque, in your opinion, to > people coming into the project today. I hope that is not indeed > true. Personally, I find a small shell snippet to be clearer than a > reference to a external program
So, when I looked at your shell script, the problem was not in understanding it, it was in convincing myself that none of the 2 or 3 possible bugs I saw in it affected it in the way it was currently used in your packages, or could cause a surprise later. For example, it hardcodes excluding anything in /var from the md5sums. At the same time, it does not exclude conffiles, or anything in /etc. make has neither, but how, I wondered, could this code be used for something like tome, that does have files in /var, that need to be md5summed, as well as conffiles, which should not? Ah, turns out you have a different version there, that removes the /var exclude, and excludes /etc instead. (BTW, tome's use of /var/games for static game data smells of a FHS violation to me.) -- see shy jo
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