Bug#219156: tetex-bin: postinst script fails to run texconfig under dash
Michel Casabona <michel.casabona@free.fr> wrote:
> Thanks for the patch to postinst. It will solve the bug. But as I said,
> texconfig is not cautious enough with what is found in his environment
> (it checks "envvars", but do not set "IFS" !)
That's right. So we should suggest to Thomas to add the OIFS-construct
to texconfig, shouldn't we? However, it is not quite clear to me to
_what_ we should set it.
>> > I don't understand why you couldn't reproduce the problem, so it may be
>> > caused by something special to my configs but I fail to see what.
>
> Ok, I think I've caught the suspect. Looking in /proc/$PPID/environ and
> going back through the parents, I noticed that IFS is marked exportable
> by Eterm.
Good to know where it came from...
Bye, Frank
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Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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