[Resolvconf-devel] Bug#502863: resolvconf: shell script contains nonworking code

[Peter T. Breuer]

Package: resolvconf
Version: 1.42
Severity: important


The following lines from the /sbin/resolvconf script cause my shell
(bash) to bomb:

    [ "${IFACE/\/}" = "$IFACE" ] || { report_iface_err "Slash" ; exit 1 ; }
    [ "${IFACE/ }" = "$IFACE" ]  || { report_iface_err "Space" ; exit 1 ; } 

It appears to be that slash stuff in the variable. The error is:

   /sbin/resolvconf: 1: Bad substitution

Commenting th elines stops the error.

I have

ii  bash           3.2-4          The GNU Bourne Again SHell

There's also other stuff wrong, but I'll file separate reports. No
/etc/resolvconf/run/enable-updates file, or something like that, and
nothing does anything and links point to nowhere.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers hardy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-security'), (500, 'hardy'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages resolvconf depends on:
ii  coreutils                     6.10-6     The GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.24     Debian configuration management sy
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

resolvconf recommends no packages.

resolvconf suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  resolvconf/downup-interfaces:
  resolvconf/link-tail-to-original: false
  resolvconf/linkify-resolvconf: true