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From: Jonathan Liu <net147@gmail.com>
To: Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] populate-volatile.sh: normalize repeated leading slashes in TNAME
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 19:23:35 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5199EB97.50900@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369041556.6920.182.camel@phil-desktop.brightsign>

On 20/05/2013 7:19 PM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 11:29 +1000, Jonathan Liu wrote:
>> -		TNAME=${ROOT_DIR}/${TNAME}
>> +		TNAME=`echo ${ROOT_DIR}/${TNAME} | sed -e 's@^//*@/@'`
> Why is this a good thing?  Your commit message is rather terse.
>
> p.
It reduces the size of /etc/volatile.cache.
Otherwise for example if you have ROOT_DIR=/, TNAME=/var/log, TNAME 
becomes ///var/log.
Also if you have verbose mode enabled it actually prints out the extra 
unnecessary leading slashes.

Regards,
Jonathan



  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-20  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-20  1:29 [PATCH] populate-volatile.sh: normalize repeated leading slashes in TNAME Jonathan Liu
2013-05-20  9:19 ` Phil Blundell
2013-05-20  9:23   ` Jonathan Liu [this message]
2013-05-20  9:38     ` Phil Blundell
2013-05-20 10:00       ` Jonathan Liu

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