On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 21:08 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > According to the manual page, -k argument "must be in quotes if it is > more than one (shell) word." I'm not sure whether this a comment on how > user's shell splits arguments or how deb-reversion splits them, but in > either case quoting doesn't help: [...] > $ deb-reversion -k "'echo hello world'" devscripts_2.11.4_i386.deb > /usr/bin/deb-reversion: eval: line 77: unexpected EOF while looking for > matching `''
You want this format, and a version of deb-reversion that doesn't have broken handling of multi-word arguments. $ sudo ./scripts/deb-reversion.sh -k "'echo hello world'" acpi_1.6-1_amd64.deb hello world version 1.6-1LOCAL.1 of acpi is now available in ./acpi_1.6-1LOCAL.1_amd64.deb . Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org