ports/145447: noticed a useless cat(1) in install.sh for ports

Stefan Kuttler u at netbeisser.de
Wed Apr 7 02:00:15 UTC 2010


>Number:         145447
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       noticed a useless cat(1) in install.sh for ports
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Apr 07 02:00:14 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Stefan Kuttler
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0
>Organization:
nc.netbeisser.de
>Environment:
FreeBSD .localdomain 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009 root at almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
noticed a useless cat(1) in install.sh for ports:

- cat ports.tgz | tar --unlink -xpzf - -C ${DESTDIR}/usr
+ tar --unlink -xpzf ports.tgz -C ${DESTDIR}/usr

this works well for bsdtar.
>How-To-Repeat:
it works even without cat:

        # setenv DESTDIR /
        # tar --unlink -xpzf ports.tgz -C ${DESTDIR}/usr
        # echo $?
        0

>Fix:
remove cat(1) from install.sh

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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