+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #81743 +++ # svscan-add-to-inittab head: `-21' option is obsolete; use `-n 21' since this will be removed in the future tail: cannot open `+22' for reading: No such file or directory
It looks like that initial bug report was not directly a coreutils problem. I have coreutils-5.94-r1 installed and I've just installed supervise-scripts-3.5 and in /usr/bin/svscan-add-to-inittab there is a reference to the tail command that has incorrect syntax. On line 65 you have the following: catit | tail +$lineno Which should be: catit | tail -n +$lineno
the ebuild should fix this already: >>> Unpacking supervise-scripts-3.5.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/sys-process/supervise-scripts-3.5/work * Replacing obsolete head/tail with POSIX compliant ones * - fixed svscan-add-to-inittab.in
LOL, you'd think so, but on my system a re-emerge of sys-process/supervise-scripts-3.5 over writes my local (edited) copy of /usr/bin/svscan-add-to-inittab with the broken one. I've just been and checked the following: # cd /usr/portage/sys-process/supervise-scripts # ebuild supervise-scripts-3.5.ebuild unpack # cat /var/tmp/portage/supervise-scripts-3.5/work/supervise-scripts-3.5/svscan-add-to-inittab.in | tail -n 10 and get the following output with the tail options still in the broken format :-( { catit | head -$(($lineno-1)) echo "SV:2345:respawn:$conf_bin/svscan-start /service" echo "SX:S016:wait:$conf_bin/svscan-stopall /service" catit | tail +$lineno } >"$tmpfile" # And move it over the existing file ln "$filename" "$backup" mv -f "$tmpfile" "$filename" It looks like the file isn't changed in any way by the inherited code :-( Hope the feedback helps narrow this one down as if the inherited code is broken then other packages may be effected too! ok, here's a diff output from the fixed version of svscan-add-to-inittab and the original version in the tar.gz file: < lineno=`catit | egrep -n '^[^:]*:0:wait:.*rc' | cut -d: -f1 | head -1` --- > lineno=`catit | egrep -n '^[^:]*:0:wait:.*rc' | cut -d: -f1 | head -n 1` The only parts that are changed are the "head" commands and not the "tail" commands!
that's because the eclass cannot handle arbitrary shell scripts fixed in cvs
