On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:45:39PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Monday 30 April 2007 01:22, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 03:38:38PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 14:49, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > Here's my patch. Let me know if it's ok for commit. > > > > > > To include this in the official repository, you need to take care about > > > the portability. [...] > > > > I ported it to bourne shell. It's tested and known to work with dash as > > /bin/sh. I think this should address your concern. > > > > My new patch also arranges the logic for generating update-grub components > > to make it more similar to how grub-install is handled. > > Some issues are still there. You should avoid test -z. Instead, use test > x$foo > = x.
Ok > You should avoid ! in test. Use else instead. Earlier when I read the portability document I was pointed to, I found: "You may use `!' with `test', but not with `if'" Are you sure this change is required? > You should avoid using > which. Travese $PATH instead. Do you mean something like: IFS=: for i in $PATH ; do grub-probe="$i/grub-probe" if test -x $grub-probe ; then break ; fi done ? -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel