[Slackbuilds-users] Updates - 20170121.1

Jim Diamond Jim.Diamond at acadiau.ca
Sat Jan 21 01:20:15 UTC 2017


On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 21:13 (-0400), Jim Diamond wrote:

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> sbocheck is dying when it tries to parse the
> EMAIL="euan at potensol dot com" 
> line.  This file has a trailing space, which I thought might be the
> problem, but so do a few others (all of them with that e-mail addr).

> I see that the offensive perl code /usr/share/perl5/SBO/Lib/Info.pm
> was updated last week.  Coincidence?

> Andreas, what do you think?


I forgot to add that changing
        while ($info_str =~ /\G([A-Za-z0-9_]+)="([^"]*)"\n/g) {
to
        while ($info_str =~ /\G([A-Za-z0-9_]+)="([^"]*)" *\n/g) {
solves that problem and sbocheck runs to completion.  Whether that
breaks something else remains to be seen.


                                Jim


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