[Dirvish] summary file fun?

Jason Boxman jasonb at edseek.com
Tue Aug 15 16:46:43 UTC 2006


I don't know that I have permission to reproduce the sender, but in a
private mail someone found the problem below with `dirvish-expire`.  Anyone
else experience this?

> But unfortunately the dirvish-expire didn't work.
> Nothing happend, no version ever had been deleted.
>
> So I had a look into the code and finally found the problem.
>
> The subroutine findop reacts upon files called "summary" and expects to
> find there information about the expire time.
>
> But we use Ximian Evolution and there are files named "summary"
> somewhere in the depths of the ~/evolution directory.
>
> Exactly: evolution/mail/imap/USERNAME at DOMAINNAME/INBOX/summary.
>
>
> So I think I have to call this a bug! Just to search for a file called
> "summary" isn't enough - as I had to experience.
>
> I changed the line
>
>   if ($_ eq 'summary')
>
> into
>
>   if (($_ eq 'summary') && not ($File::Find::dir =~ /@mail/))
>
> and everything was OK. Obviously there were no other files or
> directories called "summary" in our backup.
> But this is not really a solution! What do you suggest?!?





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