On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 17:15:10 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 09:00:04 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > >> * calling /usr/share/bug/texlive-doc-base 3>&1 aborts with an error > >> (getkey: command not found) when called in the console. > >> > > That's one of the documented functions such a script can rely on. > > Where is that documented? And where does getkey come from? Haven't found > a package providing this command.
/usr/share/doc/reportbug/README.developers.gz The function is in /usr/share/reportbug/handle_bugscript which looks like it could be used pretty much as-is in rng. > >> as you can see rng already gathered the info and even put in in a file, > >> all the user has to do is to attach this file to the mail. > >> > > That doesn't make any sense. If you gather the info, then surely > > putting it in the mail is not much more work. I'm pretty sure you can > > attach files to a mail, if nothing else. > > Not every MUA supports an "attach file" option. Then they're broken. > It's not that I haven't > already tried it (#491499). So since attaching the file automatically is > not possible right now, asking the user kindly to attach the file is the > second best rng can do. And please keep in mind that this only happens > when the output of a script is *very* large -- to large for the shell to > handle -- like the one from xserver-xorg, for the most other packages, > everything should work fine automatically and attaching a file is not > needed. > > >> The "file too long" problem isn't rng's fault but a limitation of the > >> shell which can't execute commands of unlimited length. Rng detects such > >> cases where calling the MUA failed and puts the output in a file and > >> asks the user kindly to attach it. > >> > > Yes, it's rng's fault. I'm not sure why you say the shell has anything > > to do with this. > > How do you think rng invokes the different MUAs? If you have a better > solution which supports calling MUAs with bodies of arbitrary > textlengths, then please send me a patch. I'd love to have this included > rather to rely on the user to attach a file. There are lots of ways to invoke a program and give it some data that don't involve giving that data to the shell. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
