[tex-live] Bug#489943: Bug#489943: texlive-base-bin: mktexpk does not work in directories containing spaces

[Hilmar Preusse]

On 09.07.08 Karl Berry (karl at freefriends.org) wrote:

Hi all,

I'm just doing a full quote.

The submitter requested some changes. One was accepted but upstream,
the others not. Jan, is this fine with you. Can we mark that bug
fixed in upstream and close it as soon as that single change hits
Debian?

Thanks,
  Hilmar

> Thanks for the report, but ...
> 
>     > However I also noticed use of echo+sed dirname replacement (with comment
>     > "can't rely on dirname" -- basename was relied on on the next line though),
> 
> Well, that's because basename can be relied on :).
> 
>     > which would have problems with spaces at the end (backquote expansion eats
>     > them) and backslashes in some shells (the rules for backslash processing in
>     > echo differ from shell to shell). So my patch additionally includes
> 
> I am not surprised that there are failures with names containing spaces,
> let alone backslashes.  And since we want to move away from shell
> scripts in general (-> texlua, so we can run the same code on Windows),
> I doubt it's worth anyone's time to do a in-depth exegesis of all the
> failures.
> 
>     > -PKDESTDIR=`echo "$PKDEST" | sed 's%/[^/][^/]*$%%'` # can't rely on dirname
> 
> I am not aware of any way to improve on the portability of this
> construct.  POSIX is certainly not the answer.  Something to take up on
> the autoconf list if you really want to.
> 
>     > -cd $PKDESTDIR || exit 1
>     > +cd "$PKDESTDIR" || exit 1
> 
> That change was already made.
> 

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