On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:48:37PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 23/01/12 12:13, Dave Reisner wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:08:14PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > >> On 20/01/12 23:59, Dave Reisner wrote: > >>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:24:23PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > >>>> The grep statement used to check for a difference between the > >>>> installed package list before and after resolving dependencies > >>>> returns 1 if there is no difference. This sets of the error > >>>> trap when "-r" is used "unnecessarily". > >>>> > >>>> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <[email protected]> > >>>> --- > >>>> > ... > >>>> > >>>> local deplist > >>>> - if ! deplist=($(grep -xvFf <(printf "%s\n" > >>>> "${original_pkglist[@]}") \ > >>>> - <(printf "%s\n" "${current_pkglist[@]}"))); then > >>>> + deplist=($(grep -xvFf <(printf "%s\n" "${original_pkglist[@]}") > >>>> \ > >>>> + <(printf "%s\n" "${current_pkglist[@]}") || > >>>> true)) > >>>> + if [[ -n deplist ]]; then > >>> > >>> My brain tells me there's a way to avoid this, but I'm not sure I trust > >>> it right now. > >>> > >> > >> I have not thought of one... let me know if your brain is working > >> better now and has come up with the answer! > >> > >> > > > > What about something like... > > > > local dep deplist > > while read -r dep; do > > deplist+=("$dep") > > done < <(grep -xvFf <(printf "%s\n" "${original_pkglist[@]}") \ > > <(printf "%s\n" "${current_pkglist[@]}")) > > > > if (( ${#deplist[*]} )); then > > return > > fi > > I'm not sure the whole "while read" construct is worth it to get rid of > the || true. I'll just leave my patch as it is for now unless you > really feel strongly that I should not do it that way... > > Allan >
Yeah, I'm not sure either. Ideally we'd have something decent like an array_diff or array_subtract function, but passing arrays in bash is an undocumented feature and otherwise awful to do "properly".
