The variable quoting, though still a good thing to do, is not the solution for this bug.
The real solution without being too invasive in the postinst script code, seems to be changing IFS so that the for loop loops on the right list of names even when they contain spaces. New patch attached (this is the one I used in unstable). --
--- tags/5.01-8/debian/geneweb.postinst 2009-08-06 07:59:11.000000000 +0200
+++ trunk/debian/geneweb.postinst 2009-12-20 17:07:15.000000000 +0100
@@ -169,22 +167,28 @@
#
# Thanks to Russell Sutherland for pointing this to me
# Bug: 179918
+ #
+ # Deal properly with database names that contain spaces
+ OLDIFS=${IFS}
+ IFS='
+'
for base in `find $GENEWEBDB -type d -name \*.gwb`
do
- chgrp $USERS_GROUP $base
- chmod g+w,g+s $base
+ chgrp $USERS_GROUP "$base"
+ chmod g+w,g+s "$base"
# Fix files permissions. See #219779
for file in `find $base -type f`
do
- chgrp $USERS_GROUP $file
- chmod g+w $file
+ chgrp $USERS_GROUP "$file"
+ chmod g+w "$file"
done
done
for imagedir in `find $GENEWEBDB/images -type d`
do
- chgrp $USERS_GROUP $imagedir
- chmod g+w,g+s $imagedir
+ chgrp $USERS_GROUP "$imagedir"
+ chmod g+w,g+s "$imagedir"
done
+ IFS=${OLDIFS}
# Values are read from debconf
# to update variables
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