Bug#214905: apache: problems with suggested corrections tests

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>]

Hi Julian,
	the code needs to be partially rewritten. I will look into that
asap.

Fabio


On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Julian Gilbey wrote:

> Package: apache
> Version: 1.3.28-1
>
> It's another VirtualHost problem.  I have two virtual hosts, and they
> each declare an Alias /icons/.  So the
> /usr/share/apache/postinst.common script, in the
> suggested_corrections() function (which incidentally has the wrong
> error message on line 9:
>   echo "Wrong number of arguments to fix_pid"
> instead of
>   echo "Wrong number of arguments to suggested_corrections"
> - oops).  The function does the following:
>
>   icons=`grep "^Alias /icons/" $i | awk '{print $NF}'`
>
> Better would be:
>
>   icons=`grep "^Alias /icons/" $i | head -1 | awk '{print $NF}'`
>
> and then it would just check the first one; alternatively, you could
> design a check for where there is more than one such Alias.
>
> The same applies to the other such tests.
>
>    Julian
>
>

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