Re: Minor installation defects
On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 08:35:29AM +0000, Alexander V. Mirgorodsky wrote:
> Hello, Marcus:
>
> I encountered the following problem while cross-installing the Hurd from
> RedHat box:
> /hurd/dpkg-hurd: [: too many arguments
You're not the first one...
> Investigation showed that the version of "test" supplied with RedHat was
> unhappy with "==" syntax in comparisons. Changing "==" with "=" solved the
> problem and installation ran flawlessly. I believe that the usage of "=" is
> more correct and portable, so could you, please, consider incorporating the
> change into dpkg-hurd.
Ok, I can do that. But PLEASE report this to RH, too. It's bad if RH
provides such a broken version of test. Don't they use the test from
shellutils?
Marcus
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