add and use a set_class function. This adds one or more class(es) to the CLASSES…

… environment variable

@@ -20,8 +20,7 @@ gather_cpu_info() {
 		/Virtualization/ { print "export CPU_VIRT=\"" $2 "\";" }')
 	}
 
-	CLASSES="${CLASSES}${NCPUS}cpus ${CPU_VIRT} ${BYTE_ORDER} ${OP_MODES} "
-	CLASSES="$(${ECHO} "${CLASSES}" | "${SED}" 's/ \+/ /g')"
+	set_class ${NCPUS}cpus ${CPU_VIRT} ${BYTE_ORDER} ${OP_MODES}
 }
 
 # vim: set ts=4 sw=4:

@@ -87,12 +87,12 @@ gather_dist_info() {
 				eval ${GREP} -iq ${DIST} \${FILES_${CHK}} || DIST="Unknown"
 			fi
 
-			CLASSES="${CLASSES}${DIST} ";;
+			set_class ${CLASSES} ${DIST};;
 		*)
 			DIST="${OS}"
 	esac
 
-	export DIST CLASSES
+	export DIST
 }
 
 # vim: set ts=4 sw=4:

@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ gather_host_info() {
 	PLATFORM="$(${UNAME} -m)"
 	HOSTNAME="$(${UNAME} -n)"
 	GNU="$([ "${OS%GNU*}" != ${OS} ] && echo "GNU")"
-	CLASSES="${OS}\n${GNU}\n${KERNEL}\n${VERSION}\n${PLATFORM}\n${HOSTNAME}"
-	CLASSES="$(${ECHO} -e "${CLASSES}" | ${SORT} -u | ${TR} "\n" " ")"
 
 	export OS KERNEL VERSION PLATFORM HOSTNAME CLASSES
+
+	set_class ${OS} ${GNU} ${KERNEL} ${VERSION} ${PLATFORM} ${HOSTNAME}
 }
 
 # vim: set ts=4 sw=4:

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ gather_interface_info() {
 	fi
 
 	export NINTERFACES
-	export CLASSES
 
 	while [ ${NO} -le ${NINTERFACES:=0} ]
 	do
@@ -56,7 +55,7 @@ gather_if_info_ip() {
 		classes=""
 	}
 	END {
-		print "CLASSES=\"${CLASSES}" classes " \";";
+		print "set_class " classes ";";
 		print "NINTERFACES=" FNR ";"
 	}')
 
@@ -78,12 +77,13 @@ gather_if_info_ip() {
 		classes=""
 	}
 	END {
-		print "CLASSES=\"${CLASSES}" classes " \";"
+		print "set_class " classes ";"
 	}')
 }
 
 ##
 # get interface data via the ifconfig tool
+# FIXME This is outdated. It does not set classes at all.
 #
 gather_if_info_ifconfig() {
 	eval $(${IFCONFIG} -a | ${AWK} '

@@ -9,4 +9,18 @@ has_class() {
 	test "${CHECK}" != "${CHECK% ${1} *}"
 }
 
+##
+# add one or more classes given as arguments to this function
+# Using ${@} here effectively eliminates multiple spaces between
+# the classnames.
+# A class might be defined multiple times...I don't eliminate these
+# duplicates as this might involve calling uniq which is unneccesary
+# overhead as I see no harm in duplicates now.
+#
+set_class() {
+	[ -z "${CLASSES}" ] &&
+		{ CLASSES="${@}"; export CLASSES; } ||
+		CLASSES="${CLASSES} ${@}"
+}
+
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