No dots in script filenames?

[Radu Cristescu]

Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

Hi,

Files placed in the scripts directory can no longer have a dot in their names (i.e. no script.sh files in there). This worked in Hardy. Is there a reason for this?

A friend pasted me this patch, but I think it may need more than just the dot in the expression (spacing may be badly messed up):

--- /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs.orig 2008-07-16 12:09:55.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs 2008-11-29 23:09:09.000000000 +0100
 -232,7 +232,7 @@
                "${DESTDIR}/scripts/$(dirname "${b}")/"
 done
 for b in $(cd "${CONFDIR}/scripts" && find . \
- -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*/[[:alnum:]_]+$' -type f); do
+ -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*/[[:alnum:]_.]+$' -type f); do
        [ -d "${DESTDIR}/scripts/$(dirname "${b}")" ] \
                || mkdir -p "${DESTDIR}/scripts/$(dirname "${b}")"
        cp -p "${CONFDIR}/scripts/${b}" "${DESTDIR}/scripts/$(dirname "${b}")/"
--- /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/functions.orig 2008-10-01 15:15:48.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/functions 2008-11-29 23:50:52.000000000 +0100
 -110,7 +110,7 @@

                # only allow variable name chars
                case ${si_x#${initdir}/} in
- *[![:alnum:]_]*)
+ *[![:alnum:]_.]*)
                        [ "${verbose}" = "y" ] \
                        && echo "$si_x ignored: not alphanumeric or '_' file"
                        continue

Hardy didn't seem to use regular expressions at all.

I think a bug report like LP:78348 that prompted such a change, but I can't see anything specific to this change in the changelog.

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

I do not know exactly when this was resolved, but the regexps in question now include ".".

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

This change was applied in commit 97f26c6e0d61a4ff700b8f79c61a41320f317e2e and released in initramfs-tools 0.93.2.