Re: tiny patch to pkg_add

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From
Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org>
Date
7 Sep 2001 17:14:47
Subject
Re: tiny patch to pkg_add
Message-ID
20010907191437.A5216@elvis.mu.org

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On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 04:22:43PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:

> This was introduced in rev 1.38:
>
> and replace a big if..then..else construct
> to determine the package download directory with a lookup table.
>
> I am very tempted to back this part out. This "better implimentation"
> has now had two logic bugs. I wrote that "big if..then..else contstruct"
> so that the code would be *so* simple my simple my 1st quarter freshman
> students (back when I TA'ed) could understand it. I did it that way
> because I got tired of committers constantly breaking -r.

the funniest thing about this is that multiple packages in -r was already
fixed once by chris piazza in rev 1.29 (almost 2 years ago).

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