* On Sat, Oct 17 2009, O. STeffen BEYer wrote: > In the meantime I found out when this META_MERGE tag works and when not: > > When I run a tool from the terminal which calls "make dist", > everything works fine. When I run the same tool from within a > cron-job, with stdout and stderr redirected (to a file and /dev/null, > respectively), the extra tags in META.yml disappear! > > Looks like a bug to me... > > Best regards, > Steffen > > (P.S.: Why do I run the tool from within a cron-job, you may wonder? > Because when doing a "make dist", I "touch" all files and directories > first. It turns out that the size of the dist file varies quite a bit > depending on this time stamp on all files and dirs! So I re-run the > "make dist" every minute and keep the new dist file if it is > smaller. That costs me (or better, Ralf :-) ) a bit of CPU time, but > when several thousand people download the file, this saves some > bandwidth!)
LOL. -- print just => another => perl => hacker => if $,=$"
