Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 06/42] scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix script for RHEL/CentOS

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 11:19 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit b308467c916aa7acc5069802ab76a9f657434701 ]
>
> There's a missing parenthesis at the script, with causes it to
> fail to detect non-Fedora releases (e. g. RHEL/CentOS).
>
> Tested with Centos 7.6.1810.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/sphinx-pre-install | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/sphinx-pre-install b/scripts/sphinx-pre-install
> index 067459760a7b0..3524dbc313163 100755
> --- a/scripts/sphinx-pre-install
> +++ b/scripts/sphinx-pre-install
> @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ sub give_redhat_hints()
>         #
>         # Checks valid for RHEL/CentOS version 7.x.
>         #
> -       if (! $system_release =~ /Fedora/) {
> +       if (!($system_release =~ /Fedora/)) {
>                 $map{"virtualenv"} = "python-virtualenv";
>         }
>
> --
> 2.20.1
>

The negated binding operator '!~' could be used here as well, and it
does not require the use of extra parenthesis.
Just a thought.