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Re: debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)



On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 10:24:01AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > 
> > This looks like it may be due to a bug (or incompatibility) in zsh. Do you
> > have /bin/sh set to zsh? I have some strange results if I use zsh to
> > process the postinst. I'll do some more testing. Somehow the result of the
> > 'GET cvsd/limits' is passed to the next command.
> 
> My /bin/sh is dash. Looks like there must be some problem in the for
> loop that is not splitting the RET on words.

How much of POSIX compliant is dash? I have not been able to reproduce your
abcde bugs [1] [2] by using ksh/sh/bash in POSIX mode.

J

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=185640
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=187788

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