[oe] [PATCH 1/2] recipes: fix LICENSE fields

Phil Blundell philb at gnu.org
Tue May 10 09:40:03 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 11:36 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> it calls cd tmp/deploy/sources/$license/pixman
> where with $license == '&' (because LICENSE field is splitted by ' ' and
> then '|'), it ends doing cd on background and then complaing about /pixman

Right, so that is a bug.  The argument to cd should be quoted.  (There
is no need for backslashes as your mail implied.)

> Directory named & even when created with right backslash
> is still hard to use, so I think it would be better to have QA check 
> that LICENSE field has sane value, even better when we have list of
> possible values etc.

Yes, agreed, but I think the quoting bug should also be fixed.

p.






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