Re: error in bind.postinst with froze

1997-04-11 Thread Rob Browning
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is the problem with bash 2 only the ; before the } ? Then wouldn't it be > possible to use perl to determine if a { ??? } type construct is a > variable replacement thingy or a block of code, and edit it accordingly? > > Any idea where I could get a list

Re: error in bind.postinst with froze

1997-04-11 Thread John Foster
Is the problem with bash 2 only the ; before the } ? Then wouldn't it be possible to use perl to determine if a { ??? } type construct is a variable replacement thingy or a block of code, and edit it accordingly? Any idea where I could get a list of the syntax changes from bash 1.4.7 -> bash 2.0

Re: error in bind.postinst with froze

1997-04-10 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Apr 9, Paul Wade wrote : On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: : : > : > Or wait for a new release of the bind package ;-) : I can't seem to find a '}' anywhere near line 120. 1 #!/bin/sh -e 2 # 3 # Debian package postinst 4 # Version 1.2 5 # 6 # R

Re: error in bind.postinst with froze

1997-04-10 Thread Paul Wade
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > On Apr 9, John Foster wrote > : > : It unpacks OK, but then during the config it crashes with an unknown > : syntax error near line 120 'done'. This is just after an esac, and > > : Any help at all would be nice, as I can't see anything wrong

Re: error in bind.postinst with froze

1997-04-09 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
On Apr 9, John Foster wrote : : It unpacks OK, but then during the config it crashes with an unknown : syntax error near line 120 'done'. This is just after an esac, and ... : Any help at all would be nice, as I can't see anything wrong with the : bash script, but it's not my strongest suit anyway

RE: error in bind.postinst with froze

1997-04-09 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I reported this problem a few weeks ago here in this list but never got an answer back. I manage to install bind anyway basically ignoring this error (however, dselect still says that bind is not properly installed). I suspect something's wrong with bash 2.0-2 though. Try some other bash.

error in bind.postinst with froze

1997-04-09 Thread John Foster
I decided to make the plunge and upgrade one of my machines from a 'sorta' 1.2.7 to the frozen/bo, using the most recent mirror here in OZ as of yesterday. Apart from the latex/tetex nightmare (I _cannot_ get latex to go away! I'm going to have to hack the database I reckon!) I have a major proble