Re: Strip whitespace from EXTRAVERSION?

From: Juergen Salk
Date: Wed Apr 07 2004 - 03:11:14 EST


* Måns Rullgård <mru@xxxxxx> [040406 20:23]:

> good idea in case the EXTRAVERSION should contain shell
> meta-characters. Why anyone would do such a thing is beyond my
> imagination, ...

I concur. But you don't even need meta-characters to mess up the
whole system with a badly or just carelessly formatted
EXTRAVERSION.

Imagine what may happen with something like:

EXTRAVERSION = -foo / # my homebrew -foo kernel

Maybe somewhat far-fetched ...

> ... but who knows?

True.

Best regards - Juergen

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