[OE-core] [PATCH] base-files: fix 'dash' expanding '\n'

Javier Viguera javier.viguera at digi.com
Wed Feb 20 15:09:17 UTC 2013


Dash's 'echo' command expands '\n' by default, so the '\n' is not
included in the '/etc/issue' file.

Use 'printf' for portability between different shells.

Signed-off-by: Javier Viguera <javier.viguera at digi.com>
---

Probably also worth to be cherry-picked to 'danny' branch.

 meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
index 6a3db50..e7a9d82 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ do_install_basefilesissue () {
 			printf "${DISTRO_VERSION} " >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/issue
 			printf "${DISTRO_VERSION} " >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/issue.net
 		fi
-		echo "\n \l" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/issue
+		printf "\\\n \\\l\n" >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/issue
 		echo >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/issue
 		echo "%h"    >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/issue.net
 		echo >> ${D}${sysconfdir}/issue.net




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