Index: trunk/ippScripts/scripts/dist_component.pl
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--- trunk/ippScripts/scripts/dist_component.pl	(revision 23777)
+++ trunk/ippScripts/scripts/dist_component.pl	(revision 23778)
@@ -249,12 +249,5 @@
 my $bytes;
 my $md5sum;
-if (0) {
-if (($stage eq 'fake')  or (($stage eq 'raw') and $clean)) {
-    open DUMMY, ">$tmpdir/fake.$component" or &my_die("Unable to create placeholder for fake component",
-        $dist_id, $component, $PS_EXIT_CONFIG_ERROR);
-    print DUMMY "This file is a placeholder\n";
-    close DUMMY;
-}
-}
+
 if ($num_files) {
     # create the tarfile
@@ -386,5 +379,4 @@
     } elsif ($stage eq "camera") {
         $config_file_rule = "PSASTRO.CONFIG";
-        $component = "";
     } elsif ($stage eq 'fake') {
         # XXX: fake is a no op now return an emtpy list