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Re: How to ask efficiently for removal of 32 bit architectures of about 40 packages (Was: reverse dependenc)



On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:26:40 +0000, Holger Levsen
<holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
>foo="bin1
>bin2
>bin3"
>
>$file=/some/path/to/bugreport_without_package_line.txt
>tmpfile=$(mktemp)
>
>for package in $foo ; do
>	( echo "package: $package" ;
>	  cat $file ) > $tmpfile
>	do mutt -s "RM: remove $package" -i tmpfile $package
>	sleep 15m
>done
>rm $tmpfile
>
>with 40 packages this is just a 10h running script ;)

A very nice example for Koehntopp's rule: "Verwende perl¹. shell will
man können, dann aber nicht verwenden"²

Greetings
Marc

¹ it would be python nowadays, the saying is 25 years old
² "Use perl. You want to know how to write shell scripts, but not
actually do it"
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