Bug 714694

Summary:	=net-misc/netifrc-0.7.1 with /bin/sh -> mksh: /lib/netifrc/net/iw.sh[731]: no closing quote
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) <polynomial-c>
Component:	netifrc	Assignee:	netifrc Team <netifrc>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2020-03-25 09:56:14 UTC

Each time netifrc is caching its network module list, the following message appears when mksh is being set as /bin/sh:

   *   Caching network module dependencies
  /lib/netifrc/net/iw.sh[731]: no closing quote

using dash or bash as /bin/sh does not trigger this message


Steps to reproduce:

1) emerge -1n app-shells/mksh
2) ln -sfnv mksh /bin/sh
3) rm /run/openrc/nettreelo
4) /etc/init.d/net.lo restart

Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester

2020-03-25 22:13:05 UTC

netifrc targets POSIX and tests with dash.

here's the line that mksh does not parse correctly:
eval MAC_${APS}="\""$(echo "${x%(*}" | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' )"\""

specifically, mksh does not parse this expression correctly:
echo "${x%(*}"

Please file a bug to upstream mksh.

Alternate versions of that line will be accepted as well, feel free to test and commit