Your message dated Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:22:48 +1000 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Removed has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 28 Nov 2002 03:11:14 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 27 21:11:14 2002 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from h.lb.oro.net (H.oro.net) [204.212.106.126] (mail) by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 18HF57-0007fB-00; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:11:14 -0600 Received: from smj by H.oro.net with local id 18HF5C-0000y1-00; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:11:18 -0800 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:11:18 -0800 From: Scott Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Scott Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: gcdb.postinst hangs: unknown sed -e command Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Reportbug-Version: 2.9 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.8 required=5.0 tests=SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,SUPERLONG_LINE,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.41 X-Spam-Level: Package: gcdb Version: 1.1.5-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable will not install... gcdb.postinst hangs indefinitely after reporting an unknown option to sed -e 's' command. problem is caused by an attempt to replace parameters with their values by using sed s#param#$value# type commands... but the values can *contain* the '#' character. I was able to successfully install by editing the command in the gcdb.postint script replacing '#' with '/' After shell variable expansion, here is the command that failed: #bin#sed -e "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@#On#; [EMAIL PROTECTED]@#gcdb#; [EMAIL PROTECTED]@#localhost#; [EMAIL PROTECTED]@#gcdbmgr#; [EMAIL PROTECTED]@#hidden#; [EMAIL PROTECTED]@#gcdb#; [EMAIL PROTECTED]@##000088#; [EMAIL PROTECTED]@##AAAAFF#; [EMAIL PROTECTED]@##000088#; [EMAIL PROTECTED]@##7777FF#" #etc#gcdb#gcdb-settings.php.in > #etc#gcdb#gcdb-settings.php after my edit, here is the command that succeeded: /bin/sed -e "s/@dbpersistent@/On/; s/@dbname@/gcdb/; s/@dbserver@/localhost/; s/@dbuser@/gcdbmgr/; s/@dbpass@/hidden/; s/@brand@/gcdb/; s/@topbar@/#000088/; s/@background@/#AAAAFF/; s/@tableborder@/#000088/; s/@innertable@/#7777FF/" /etc/gcdb/gcdb-settings.php.in > /etc/gcdb/gcdb-settings.php -- System Information: Debian Release: stable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux As 2.4.18 #5 Sat May 11 02:21:41 PDT 2002 i586 unknown Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C --------------------------------------- Received: (at 171015-done) by bugs.debian.org; 23 Apr 2003 00:23:20 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Apr 22 19:23:19 2003 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from bangpath.uucico.de [195.71.9.197] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 19882c-0002yb-00; Tue, 22 Apr 2003 19:23:14 -0500 Received: by bangpath.uucico.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id C6F4726BC5; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 02:23:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: by regression.cyrius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 116C123D43; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:22:48 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:22:48 +1000 From: Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Removed Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=4.0 tests=SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_02_03,USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_MUTT,VERY_SUSP_RECIPS version=2.44 X-Spam-Level: This package was removed from Debian unstable because it had no maintainer for a long time and has release criticasl bugs. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]