On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 21:51 -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 04:12:54AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 21:56 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 16:42 -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> > > > Source: linux-2.6
> > > > Version: 2.6.32-12
> > > > Severity: serious
> > > > Tags: patch
> > > >
> > > > /usr/sbin/elilo didn't like the converted elilo.conf because it
> > > > doesn't support quoted strings, or spaces around '='.
> > >
> > > Oops, when I read the code it looked like it was closely based on LILO
> > > (like many other bootloaders). Apparently it's not so close.
> > [...]
> > > I'll re-read the ELILO code to check exactly how its parser differs.
> >
> > The versions in lenny (3.8-1) and sid (3.12-1) certainly look like they
> > support quoted filenames. Which version are you using?
>
> 3.12-2. It may have some support for quoted file names but, if so, it
> is buggy. The problem I hit is this bit of code:
>
> checkconf()
> {
> if [ -L "$boot" ] ; then
> oldboot=$boot
> boot=$(readlink -f $oldboot)
> echo 1>&2 "$PRG: $oldboot is a symbolic link, using $boot
> instead"
> fi
> if [ ! -e "$boot" ] ; then
> [...]I see - I didn't look at the support scripts. [...] > I'd certainly argue that elilo *should* support quoted strings, but I > suspect we'll have to assume it doesn't at least for the > lenny->squeeze upgrade. Agreed. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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