[OE-core] [PATCH 2/6] runqemu: use modern, single-char name of test(1)

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 04:25:25PM -0700, Joshua Lock wrote:
>On 03/05/12 10:12, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
>>@@ -313,11 +313,11 @@ findimage() {
>>      # recently created one is the one we most likely want to boot.
>>      filenames=`ls -t $where/*-image*$machine.$extension 2>/dev/null | xargs`
>>      for name in $filenames; do
>>-        if [[ "$name" =~ core-image-sato-sdk ||
>>-              "$name" =~ core-image-sato     ||
>>-              "$name" =~ core-image-lsb      ||
>>-              "$name" =~ core-image-basic    ||
>>-              "$name" =~ core-image-minimal ]]; then
>>+        if [ "$name" =~ core-image-sato-sdk -o \
>>+              "$name" =~ core-image-sato     -o \
>>+              "$name" =~ core-image-lsb      -o \
>>+              "$name" =~ core-image-basic    -o \
>>+              "$name" =~ core-image-minimal ]; then
>>              ROOTFS=$name
>>              return
>>          fi	
>
>This change broke findimage() for me on both bash and dash.
>Reproducer is 'runqemu qemux86'.
>
>Under bash I get:
>
>/srv/yocto/poky/scripts/runqemu: line 303: [: too many arguments
>
>Undoing this change fixes things for me. Note: this change doesn't
>revert cleanly.
>
>I've filed this as Yocto #2433:
>https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2433
>
>As an aside, when trying (unsuccessfully) to figure out a fix for
>this I ran across Ubuntu's page on dash[1] which indicates changing
>|| for -o isn't right. Anyone have a strong opinion on that?

just a weak. That whole style is utterly broken.
case "$name" in
core-image-sato-sdk*|blah)
esac

Really that whole name hardcoding is plain stupid and over-engineered.
If the darn image exists then, heck, just use it.

But that's politics i fear -- not even sure if that intel-guy ment to
imply that, though. Somehow doubt it |-/

Any sane way out of that mess?
>
>Cheers,
>Joshua
>
>1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh