On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:20:31 -0700
Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 06:03 Sun 09 Mar     , Rajiv Aaron Manglani (rajiv) wrote:
> > 1.1                  sys-power/nut/nut-2.2.1.ebuild
> > 
> > file :
> > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-power/nut/nut-2.2.1.ebuild?rev=1.1&view=markup
> > plain:
> > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-power/nut/nut-2.2.1.ebuild?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain
> 
> > src_install() {
> 
> ...
> 
> >     eval fperms 0640 ${NUT_PRIVATE_FILES}
> >     eval fowners root:nut ${NUT_PRIVATE_FILES}
> > 
> >     eval fperms 0644 ${NUT_PUBLIC_FILES}
> >     eval fowners root:root ${NUT_PUBLIC_FILES}
> 
> ...
> 
> > pkg_postinst() {
> >     # this is to ensure that everybody that installed old
> > versions still has # correct permissions
> > 
> >     chown nut:nut "${ROOT}"/var/lib/nut 2>/dev/null
> >     chmod 0700 "${ROOT}"/var/lib/nut 2>/dev/null
> > 
> >     eval chown root:nut "${ROOT}"${NUT_PRIVATE_FILES}
> > 2>/dev/null eval chmod 0640 "${ROOT}"${NUT_PRIVATE_FILES}
> > 2>2>/dev/null
> > 
> >     eval chown root:root "${ROOT}"${NUT_PUBLIC_FILES}
> > 2>/dev/null eval chmod 0644 "${ROOT}"${NUT_PUBLIC_FILES} 2>/dev/null
> 
> Is there any reason why eval is used in either of these places?

Or indeed why potentially useful debugging information is redirected
to /dev/null... :)


Kind regards,
     JeR
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