Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 7 Apr 2004 10:00:50 +0200 | | From | Juergen Salk <> | | Subject | Re: Strip whitespace from EXTRAVERSION? | |
* Måns Rullgård <mru@kth.se> [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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