[Initng] Help - ng-update

[Felipe Tonioli]

Tks Eric, but still not working ... Sad that the new 1.0.3 version didn´t
work too.

version 1.0.1 also not working ... well...

Tks,
Felipe Tonioli

On 5/23/07, Eric MSP Veith <eveith at wwweb-library.net> wrote:
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> Line 167 is only a "printf" call, as far as I can see, that should not be
> a
> problem. Line 169, however, makes a substitution in the same way. You
> could
> try changing it to:
>
> eval myscript=\$myscript_$(echo $c | sed 's/-/_/g')
>
> However, that does not gurantee that those substitutions aren't used in
> the
> rest of the ng-update script. I'd suggest you try replacing your current
> ng-update with an older version (don't forget to backup!). You can get
> older
> versions from SVN via the svn browser on www.initng.org. The URL is
> http://www.initng.org/browser/initng-ifiles/tags.
>
> HTH,
>         Eric
>
>
> On Wednesday 23 May 2007, "Felipe Tonioli" <ftonioli at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > Now i have the same problem on line 167. Bad Substitution
> >
> > could you provide help again ? :)
> >
> > tks in advance,
> > Felipe TOnioli
> >
> > On 5/17/07, Eric MSP Veith <eveith at wwweb-library.net> wrote:
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> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I can confirm that. This seems to be a problem with the debian packets
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> > > bash, they seem to lack some sort of parameter expension feature. I'm
> > > currently trying to investigate this, however, I've got no debian (or
> > > ubuntu)
> > > installation here.
> > >
> > > A quick fix might be replacing line 163 with the following:
> > >
> > > export "myscript_$(echo $e|sed 's,-,_,g')"="$(cat "${rlfile}")"
> > >
> > > However, I haven't tried it. Make a backup copy of your
> /sbin/ng-update,
> > > replace the line, and let us know whether it worked. :-)
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > >         Eric
> > >
> > > On Thursday 17 May 2007, "Felipe Tonioli" <ftonioli at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > I´ve installed initng, initng-ifiles and initng-usplash.
> > > >
> > > > I cant use ng-update because an syntax error on line 163 due bad
> > > > substitution.
> > > >
> > > > whats the problem ? I´ve googled for two days and no answer...
> > > >
> > > > I force the instalation of initng-usplash via apt-get and now cant
> > > > uninstall this because a script error due the same error above.
> > > >
> > > > any help ?
> > > >
> > > > tks in advance,
> > > > Felipe Tonioli
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