[Monotone-debian] Re: var/lib/dpkg/info/monotone-server.config: 27: Syntax error: Bad substitution

[Zack Weinberg]

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On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Gyron Mkwebo <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks a lot mate for your timely reply

Glad to be of help.

>  #! /bin/sh
...

>         PASS="$PASS${MATRIX:$(($RANDOM%${#MATRIX})):1}"
>         let n+=1
...

>  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4 2007-09-11 10:42 /bin/sh -> dash

This is what I thought was wrong.  The shell script fragment above
contains "bashisms" (use of GNU Bash extensions to the shell language)
but /bin/sh is not bash.

This bug was fixed in version 0.37-2 of the Debian package; that or a
later version ought to make its way into Ubuntu in due course.  I
don't know how that works.  In the meantime, you can work around the
problem by changing the first line of
/var/lib/dpkg/info/monotone-server.postinst to read

#! /bin/bash

and then running "dpkg -a --configure" as root.

zw