482370 – =sys-apps/lsb-release-1.4 with dash has incorrect output, contains -e

Bug 482370 - =sys-apps/lsb-release-1.4 with dash has incorrect output, contains -e

Summary: =sys-apps/lsb-release-1.4 with dash has incorrect output, contains -e

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2013-08-24 21:44 UTC by Maxim Kammerer
Modified:	2014-09-27 19:19 UTC (History)
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Description Maxim Kammerer 2013-08-24 21:44:19 UTC

# dash /usr/bin/lsb_release -a
-e LSB Version: n/a
-e Distributor ID:      Gentoo
-e Description: NAME=Gentoo
-e Release:     n/a
-e Codename:    n/a

I use "echo ${BASH:+-e}" in scripts, but maybe there is a better solution.

(unrelated to bug #443116)

Comment 1 yegle 2014-09-24 22:19:48 UTC

Confirm.

Also Debian have a much higher version number and the lsb_release command is a python script instead of a shell script. Should we update to that version?

ref: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/lsb-release

Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester

2014-09-27 19:08:02 UTC

The POSIX form you are looking for is:

  printf '%b\n' "$MY_RANDOM_STRING"

Comment 3 Michał Górny archtester

2014-09-27 19:19:30 UTC

+*lsb-release-1.4-r2 (27 Sep 2014)
+
+  27 Sep 2014; Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> +lsb-release-1.4-r2.ebuild:
+  Use POSIX-compliant printf instead of 'echo -e' bashism, bug #482370.