Re: Thanks for a smooth 2.6 to 2.8 transistion

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:36:42PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
 > On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 07:28, Sven Luther wrote:
 > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:59:13AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
 > > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 10:46:50AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
 > > > 
 > > >  > Bah, perl is the ugliest language ever invented ...
 > > > 
 > > >  Write it in assembler for all I care.  But have it do the right thing.
 > > 
 > > Point taken.
 > > 
 > > It would be easier if the adduser package would include a little script or
 > > something to handle that.
 > 
 > Indeed.  That's bug #147518, more than two and a half years old!
 > 
 > A patch to do something like this in postinst is in that bug, but I
 > didn't (and still don't) know enough perl to make one crucial line work.

 I'm not sure what you mean, but if it's about this:

 while (defined($thisgroup = shift($config{new_user_groups}))) {

 you write that as:

 foreach my $thisgroup (split /\s+/, $config{"new_user_groups"}) {

 HTH,

 Marcelo