Bug#273191: no longer seems to support kernel command line variable values with spaces in their name

2004-09-28 Thread Joey Hess
Rusty Russell wrote: > Nope. Interesting to find someone actually uses that odd "turn option > into env var" stuff. Yeah, and we use it in a decidedly odd way too, but it is useful. (FWIW, we've stopped needing spaces in any env variables due to other changes, so fixing this need not be a priori

Bug#273191: no longer seems to support kernel command line variable values with spaces in their name

2004-09-28 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 05:31, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 03:40:18PM +0200, Joey Hess wrote: > > Package: kernel > > Version: 2.6.8 > > Severity: normal > > > > The 2.4 kernel supports parameters passed on the kernel command line of > > the form COUNTRY="United States"; it un

Bug#273191: no longer seems to support kernel command line variable values with spaces in their name

2004-09-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 03:40:18PM +0200, Joey Hess wrote: > Package: kernel > Version: 2.6.8 > Severity: normal > > The 2.4 kernel supports parameters passed on the kernel command line of > the form COUNTRY="United States"; it understands the use of quotes > around the value with a space in it, a

Bug#273191: no longer seems to support kernel command line variable values with spaces in their name

2004-09-24 Thread Joey Hess
Package: kernel Version: 2.6.8 Severity: normal The 2.4 kernel supports parameters passed on the kernel command line of the form COUNTRY="United States"; it understands the use of quotes around the value with a space in it, and sets the environment variable fine. It seems this support was dropped