FS#6726 : repo-add from pacman3 leaves .PKGINFO in current directory

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FS#6726 - repo-add from pacman3 leaves .PKGINFO in current directory

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Zulu (smoon) - Wednesday, 28 March 2007, 11:12 GMT

Task Type	Bug Report
Category
Status	Closed
Assigned To	No-one
Architecture	All
Severity	Medium
Priority	Normal
Reported Version	0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version	Undecided
Due Date	Undecided
Percent Complete
Votes	0
Private	No

Details

On parsing the command line arguments, repo-add from pacman3 (using the version from testing here) tries to extract .PKGINFO from the arguments that are files:

if ! tar xf "$arg" .PKGINFO 2>&1 >/dev/null; then

This line actually extracts .PKGINFO to the current working directory and does not delete it afterwards, which causes repo-add to leave the .PKGINFO for the last package it checks.
Using `tar xOf ...' instead should solve this.

I also wonder if the stdout/stderr redirection is correct that way, at least it does not work for me. Using `... &> /dev/null' instead fixes this.