Re: [fedora-java] db merging script

[Andrew Haley]

Andrew Overholt writes:
> Andrew Overholt  [2005-03-29 16:52]:
>
> [...]
> > > (cd $DB.d; ls . | xargs gcj-dbtool -m $DB $DB)
>
> [...]
>
> I'm thinking this should be:
>
> (cd $DB.d; ls . | xargs gcj-dbtool -m $DB)
>
> What's the purpose of the extraneous $DB?  I don't think we want it because
> we actually want the entire db recreated every time.  We don't want entries
> that are not in sub-dbs in $DB.d to be in the resultant db.  Does that make
> sense?

Yes.  The extra $DB is there because xargs will call gcj-dbtool
multiple times if it needs to.  The right answer is not to use xargs.

Andrew.