On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1...@free.fr> wrote:
> Sedat, All,
>
> On 2013-09-14 16:43 +0200, Sedat Dilek spake thusly:
>> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Clément Chauplannaz <chaup...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > 2013/9/14 Sedat Dilek <sedat.di...@gmail.com>:
> [--SNIP--]
>> >> So, can you point me/us to the correct commit with subject, please?!
>> >
>> > My apologies for that mistake. The initial commit, as present in Linus
>> > tree, is:
>> > 83e8b90e1d2cc5ff5d2443f2486c2d786a4997ce - scripts/config: use sed's
>> > POSIX interface
>> >
>> > Thus, the commit message for this patch should read:
>> > scripts/config: fix variable substitution command
>> >
>> > Commit 83e8b90e1d2cc5ff5d2443f2486c2d786a4997ce ("scripts/config: use sed's
>> > POSIX interface") accidentally changed the separator between sed `s'
>> > command
>> > and its parameters from ':' to '/'.
>> >
>> > Revert this change.
>> >
>> > Reported-and-tested-by: Linus Walleij <linus.wall...@linaro.org>
>> > Signed-off-by: Clement Chauplannaz <chaup...@gmail.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mma...@suse.cz>
>> >
>>
>> What means "pending" [1]?
>
> The current script had a latent bug that would trigger when the user want
> to set a string that contains a colon ':'.
>
> This behaviour was changed by Clément, and the bug was then about strings
> with a '/' instead. This was a regression for some users.
>
> The behaviour was then reverted to break on strings containing ':'.
>
> What is pending is a final fix that will fix both cases.
>
>> Pending in sense of "we are working on it" or in the sense of
>> "exists-but-not-published".
>
> The final fix is trivial and identified, so I guess that Clément has yet
> had time to send the patch.
>
>> I did not found a hint on the offline linux-kbuild ML.
>
> That would be Michal's suggestion there:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=137907001305533&w=2
>I talked with Thorsten (MirBSD and Debian developer) and he suggested: $ sed -e "s^A$before^A$after^A" "$infile" >"$tmpfile" <--- see attached Text-File NOTE: Control character "^A" <--- ASCII 0x01 aka SOH (Start Of Heading) - Sedat - P.S.: Note2myself: vi/vim: Insert-mode: Ctrl-v Ctrl-a >> BTW, the GIT repo of Yann is not browsable (which is sh*t for checking >> commits quickl, I don't want to be forced to checkout). > > Yes, I know about that one. I've already notified the gitorious guys > about the issue, they supposedly fixed it, but it is broken again. > > I will re-open my ticket in a moment. > > Regards, > Yann E. MORIN. > > -- > .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. > | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' > conspiracy: | > | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ > | > | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no > | > | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. > | > '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'
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