On Sunday 05 July 2009, maximilian attems wrote: > bash versus dash and posh disagree on expanding $@ within double > quotes: export x="$@" > see http://bugs.debian.org/381091 for details > just use the arglist with $*. [...] > diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb > index b19f1f4..8b357b0 100644 > --- a/scripts/package/builddeb > +++ b/scripts/package/builddeb > @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ for script in postinst postrm preinst prerm ; do > set -e > > # Pass maintainer script parameters to hook scripts > -export DEB_MAINT_PARAMS="\$@" > +export DEB_MAINT_PARAMS="\$*" Although blindly replacing "$@" by "$*" can cause regressions because they *do* expand differently [1], I do not see a problem in this case given that AFAIK Debian maintainer scripts only pass parameters without whitespace in them. Acked-by: Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx> [1] $@ preserves quoting; try the following: cat <<EOF >test.fjp #! /bin/bash for i in "$*"; do echo $i; done for i in "$@"; do echo $i; done EOF chmod +x test.fjp ./test.fjp This "is a" test -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
