[Bug 690138] Re: tomcat6 installation failure on Ubuntu 10.10

[Juha Litola]

Hi,

I'm not sure whether this is invalid, as it will affect anyone who
happens to have '/' character in the JAVA_OPTS, and I guess it is not
that rare. Postinstall should escape those strings before it puts them
to sed command line. I'm not sed expert, but it could be done with
something like below. Or at least one could replace '/' as control
character in substitution with '#' or some other rarer character.

juha at intra ~% export BAR=bar
juha at intra ~% echo foo | sed "s/foo/$BAR/"
bar
juha at intra ~% export BAR=bar/bar
juha at intra ~% echo foo | sed "s/foo/`$BAR/"
sed: -e expression #1, char 11: unknown option to `s'
juha at intra ~% echo foo | sed 's/foo/'`echo -n $BAR | sed 's#/#\\\/#g'`'/'
bar/bar

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Title:
  tomcat6 installation failure on Ubuntu 10.10