[fedora-java] db merging script

[Andrew Haley]

Andrew Overholt writes:
 > * Andrew Overholt <overholt at redhat.com> [2005-03-29 16:52]:
 > [...]
 > > > (cd $DB.d; ls . | xargs gcj-dbtool -m $DB $DB)
 > [...]
 > 
 > I'm thinking this should be:
 > 
 > (cd $DB.d; ls . | xargs gcj-dbtool -m $DB)
 > 
 > What's the purpose of the extraneous $DB?  I don't think we want it because
 > we actually want the entire db recreated every time.  We don't want entries
 > that are not in sub-dbs in $DB.d to be in the resultant db.  Does that make
 > sense?

Yes.  The extra $DB is there because xargs will call gcj-dbtool
multiple times if it needs to.  The right answer is not to use xargs.

Andrew.