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Subject: Re: base-files-4.2-3 : attention maintainer
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From: Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu>
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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:53:48 -0400
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On 9/24/2015 1:29 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Marco Atzeri writes:
>> the bug is in the
>>    /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh
>> of base-files-4.2-3
>>
>> --------------------------------------------
>> FILES="hosts protocols services networks"
>> OSNAME="$(/usr/bin/uname -s)"
>> WINETC="$(/usr/bin/cygpath -S -u)/drivers/etc"
>>
>> [cut]
>>
>> for mketc in ${FILES}
>> do
>>    if [ ! -e "/etc/${mketc}" -a ! -L "/etc/${mketc}" ]
>>    then
>>      /usr/bin/ln -s -v "${WINETC}/${mketc}" "/etc/${mketc}"
>>    fi
>> done
>> --------------------------------------------
>>
>> As on my systems the bug is not present,
>> it can be a relative recent introduction.
>
> I've introduced this bug inadvertently when releasing base-files-4.1.
> I'll fix it towards the weekend.

As long as you're updating base-files anyway, maybe you could implement 
one of the previously-discussed proposals for showing a prompt of "#" 
instead of "$" in shells with sufficient privileges.  Unfortunately, I 
don't remember if there was ever a consensus reached on exactly how that 
should be done.

Ken


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