[Slackbuilds-users] Odd character in JSONObject.info file

Yaroslav Panych panych.y at gmail.com
Sat Feb 16 10:37:12 UTC 2013


Confirmed, it is BOM there(and not only in .info file). And it there
more than two. weeks. But SlackBuild still buildable.

2013/2/16 Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio at gmail.com>:
> Chess Griffin wrote:
>
>> If you open up JSONObject.info in nano (not seen in vim), there is an
>> odd character at the start of the PRGNAM= line:
>>
>> 1»¿PRGNAM=JSONObject
>>
>> While parsing the .info files for PRGNAM, bash appears to try and
>> execute this line, which may be a security issue.  Anyway, a simple
>> edit of that file in the repo should take care of it.
>
> it's the BOM... but why is it there? shouldn't the file contains just ASCII
> characters??
>
> btw: it "breaks" sbopkg:
>
> # sbopkg -o
> [ Checking for obsolete sources ]
> This may take a few moments. Press <ESC> to abort.
>  52%[==========================================================================================================
> ]/var/lib/sbopkg/SBo/14.0/development/JSONObject/JSONObject.info: line 1:
> PRGNAM=JSONObject: command not found
> 100%[=============================================================================================================================================================================================================]
> It appears there are no obsolete sources in /var/cache/sbopkg.
> #
>
>
>
> --
> ZeD
>
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