Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] Proposed patch

[Bruno C. <Bru...@hp...>]

Lee Mayes said on Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 05:16:47PM -0500:

>  Sorry so lagged on the response.  

No pb Lee !

>%defs is a global in LinuxCOE.pm so I 
> didn't understand where that error is coming from.  I attempted to 

Well the fact that %defs is declared globally doesn't mean that a
specific value of the hash is defined (in general).

In my case, it seemed that $defs{'ALT_DATA'} wasn't defined, thus the
warning. So I supposed that it could be undefined in my case and that
for me the test was needed.

> Could it be a variation in our perl versions?

Not sure. Mine is:
[root@dploy ~]# perl -v

This is perl, v5.10.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

> I'll readily accept the patch but I'd like to understand why it's needed in 
> your case as it might be the tip of an iceburg.

Understood. Let me know how I can help diagnose more precisely.

> Also, I've been thinking about the CaSe problem in dist/ver/arch tuple.   
> Let me think on that a little longer as some of the issues are 'deeply 
> intertwingled'. :^)

Yes. I don't want to force you to change anything.
I'm trying to work on the waystation side, and I've always called the
mirror with lower case. But that's not a pb, I can change.

In fact what would be great, is that it exists a table somewhere
indicating which distributions are mirrored, their directory in the
ftp/http tree and  tag to designate them. That way the local admin
creates that the way he wants, there is just one table to fill.
Maybe not worth the hassle.

Thanks for your answer,
Best regards,
Bruno.
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