On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Maarten ter Huurne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It treats any whitespace in the exclusion file as a separator, which > > means means it's impossible to exclude a file or directory that > > contains a space in its name. I don't think any Debian package uses > > spaces in file names, so I guess this is not a problem. > > To work around your problem you can use something like (untested): > > while read line > do > ... > done < EXCLUDE > > It should work fine.
The "while" construct indeed leaves the spaces in tact during iteration.
However, when using the variable that contains a space, a lot of things can
go wrong. I think I've found a reasonable solution now, it is in the
attached patch. Please review it.
Bye,
Maarten
--- lh_binary_chroot.org 2007-10-24 16:52:33.000000000 +0200
+++ lh_binary_chroot 2007-10-25 02:08:18.000000000 +0200
@@ -78,6 +78,21 @@
${LH_ROOT_COMMAND} cp -a chroot chroot.tmp
${LH_ROOT_COMMAND} mv chroot.tmp chroot/chroot
+if [ -f config/binary_rootfs/exclude ]
+then
+ while read EXCLUDE
+ do
+ if [ -e chroot/chroot/"${EXCLUDE}" ]
+ then
+ # Run "rm" inside the chroot so it cannot possibly remove host files.
+ # The "Chroot" function fails if ${EXCLUDE} contains a space, so use chroot directly.
+ chroot chroot /bin/rm -rf "chroot/${EXCLUDE}"
+ else
+ Echo_warning "Excluded path does not exist: ${EXCLUDE}"
+ fi
+ done < config/binary_rootfs/exclude
+fi
+
if [ -n "${LH_ROOT_COMMAND}" ]
then
${LH_ROOT_COMMAND} chown -R $(whoami):$(whoami) chroot
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