Re: bug ???

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

PERA Christophe <cp...@cy...> wrote ..
> Hi,
> I notice a problem wil "software/rpm-lib.pl"
> on my webmin (version 0.92) on a linux redhat 7.2 and GNU bash, version
> 2.05.8(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
> 
> in the is_package function, there is an incorrect indirection :
> 	
> 	$out = `rpm -q -p $_[0] 2>&1`;
> 	in practice, this is a redirection of the standard error output
> 	on the standard output in my shell.
> 
> 	and so, test on "out" variable is failed.
> 	someone else meet that ???
> 
> Is there a next correction about that ??
> like "&>" or other code ?
> Or Maybe it is already modify?

That isn't a bug - the 2>&1 option redirects STDERR to STDOUT, so that
the perl ` operator can capture all the output from the rpm command, which
is what it wants to do.

 - Jamie