[csw-users] trivial and harmless error in pkg_get 3.8.3

[Dennis Clarke]

ALL, be advised that we are aware of this.  Also be advised that the error
is both trivial and entirely harmless.

The only way this could be even more annoying is if you actually had the
"less" binary in your PATH as well as files that it would echo to the
terminal.  Not at all likely.

Dennis Clarke

----------------------------- Original Message -----------------------------
Subject: Re: [csw-users] pkg_get 3.8.3 unstable:
From:    "Dennis Clarke" <dclarke at blastwave.org>
Date:    Tue, January 8, 2008 09:08
To:      "questions and discussions" <users at lists.blastwave.org>
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> On 2008-01-08 11:49, Jonathan Boyd wrote:
>>  I have just downloaded the new version
<snip>
>> in this new version of pkg_get?
>>
> Same for me...
>> # pkg-get -U

In the pkg-get script the following trivial error is the cause :

-- list begins at line 1988
# MUST HAVE gzip!
check_gzip

# Try to make sure we have wget SOMEWHERE in our path.
# Try to cover all potential reasonable places to look for it.
# Un
less the conf file tells us to use another program, that is.
WGET=${WGET:-wget}
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Pretty obvious how to fix this

------------ change made --------
# MUST HAVE gzip!
check_gzip

# Try to make sure we have wget SOMEWHERE in our path.
# Try to cover all potential reasonable places to look for it.
# Unless the conf file tells us to use another program, that is.
WGET=${WGET:-wget}
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Expect a new pkg-get package right away.  You can edit the script file with
vi at the moment.

Please keep in mind that while this error is annoying it is also harmless.
It just happens to attempt to execute less ( less == a linux/GPL pager
program like more ) on files that don't exist.  Then pkg-get proceeds
normally.

One moment please, technical crews are dispatched to fix this.

Dennis Clarke
Tue Jan  8 09:17:16 EST 2008