[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] Fix unquoted $(cat ...) in mayflower's big here-doc,

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Wed Nov 7 12:40:03 UTC 2007


Douglas McClendon <dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org> wrote:

> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed that the following part of the big here-document
>> in creator/mayflower was not backslash-escaped (along with the
>> following two lines):
>
> FWIW, In my own as yet unpublished tool, I keep the init as a separate
> file even.  I.e. I also haven't seen a real need to do any
> expansion. Though I also effectively pass the livecd label on the
> kernel command line, so as to achieve the functionality in that last
> filesystem layout patch which wasn't applied.

Hi,

Yes, I first saw an "init" file derived from this and
wrote the patches against the derived one.  Only later
did I learn that it was copied from here.  Since this
bit is being copied around more than a little, I think
that making it more readable is worthwhile is worthwhile.




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