Re: Set bash's shell option nullglob by default?

2012-07-13 Thread David Levine
Roman wrote:

 It is possible it can break many scripts even in rpm's
 scriptlets, but as I already said, it's because bad
 habits. So the main gain will be the people will learn how
 is the globbing in bash and in the whole environment
 working.

Please don't.  If an author or maintainer wants to save
themself from bad habits, they can put shopt -s nullglob
near the top of their bash scripts.

Let's not break many, many existing scripts.

David
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Self Introduction

2012-04-15 Thread David Levine
Review request:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812659

Sponsor needed.  I'm a long-time open source contributor, notably to
ACEhttp://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
 and nmh http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/nmh/.

Some nmh developers and users would like to see a
parhttp://www.nicemice.net/par/ package
on Fedora.  I volunteered to shepherd par through the process.  I expect
that it will be relatively easy:  there are only four files in the RPM.
 par has been around a long time and has a small but very dedicated user
base.

Thanks for any assistance you can provide.

David Levine
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