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From: Guilherme Fernandes <>
To: Ralf Kleineisel <>
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Subject: Re: [pS-dev] perfsonar: r3702 - branches/rpm
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:55:39 +0200
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Ralf Kleineisel wrote:

wrote:

- open( RPMMACROS, "> ~/.rpmmacros") or die "There was a problem opening the
file ~/.rpmmacros for writing.";
+ my $homedir = `echo ~`; # workaround for Ubuntu (and maybe others)
~/.rpmmacros bug

This will only work if the shell that happens to run the echo expands "~".

The IMHO best way in perl would be:

my @pwuid = getpwuid($<);
my $homedir = $pwuid[7];

or $ENV{HOME} on Unixoid systems.

Thanks for the input, I'll make the changes!

Guilherme

perfsonar: r3702 - branches/rpm, svnlog, 04/16/2008
- Re: [pS-dev] perfsonar: r3702 - branches/rpm, Ralf Kleineisel, 04/16/2008
  - Re: [pS-dev] perfsonar: r3702 - branches/rpm, Guilherme Fernandes, 04/16/2008

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