On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Christopher Cobb wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha <at> cs.nyu.edu> writes:
>
> > FWIW, why not
> >
> > INSTALL_SITE_DIR=$PACKAGES_DIR/$(cd $PACKAGES_DIR && \
> > ls -1td $(cat /etc/setup/last-mirror | \
> > perl -pe 's/([^A-Za-z0-9\-_.!~*()\n])/"%".unpack("H2",$1)/eg') | \
> > head -1) # most recently modified install dir
> >
>
> I didn't know about /etc/setup/last-mirror. :)
>
> If we use that, do we still need the ls ... | head -1? Isn't that enough to
> unambiguaously identify the latest site dir, or is their more going on here?
>
> cc
Setup can use more than one mirror, all of which will be in
/etc/setup/last-mirror. The above snippet selects the latest one, or you
could update your script to deal with multiple mirrors.
Igor
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