[Bug 234326] Review Request: bandsaw - A syslog monitoring program for the GNOME desktop

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Summary: Review Request: bandsaw - A syslog monitoring program for the GNOME desktop


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234326





------- Additional Comments From dtimms at iinet.net.au  2007-08-11 20:23 EST -------
(In reply to comment #9)
> David, if you want to do this style of (pre-)review, please also
> write the summary of your (pre-)review, especially what you
> think is the problem with this package so that everyone (not only
> you and the submitter but also someone else) can check your review
> easily...
Thanks, Mamoru, will do.

> > > update-desktop-database &> /dev/null ||:
> > - I don't know if it makes a difference, but the snippet shows || :
>   - You can check what "|| :" means by "man bash". This is to 
>     ensure that %post stage will exit successfully even if the
>     command failed with some reason.
>     http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets
>From man bash, I understand that || is an token that is a control operator, and
that : is the null command and always returns exit code of zero. It would seem
then that the " " between the two parts is necessary {this was the point I was
querying the submitter about}. {Off topic - how can you search man or internet
for such a construct ??}.

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