Script Does Nothing about build-jack-fox HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi, thanks for reporting in. This is just a plain shell-script without much user-friendly/diagnostics/logging code yet (other than usage info if you run ./build-jack-fox --help), and for now it primarily relies on set -e to exit non-zero on errors. For now the best bet (for you - to know what's wrong, and for me - to find out if it is script-error, documentation-error, user-error, or incompatible system) is to run it as sh -x ./build-jack-fox (instead of the normal ./build-jack-fox), and to work out where and why it stopped based on the trailing lines of output. If you are familiar with shellscripts and Debian-based systems you can probably work it out yourself from that - in which case please let me know what it was in the end, otherwise if it looks too confusing please copy-paste the output here but first do censor out any personally identifiable information you don't want publicly displayed before sending it. The things you might want to censor are e.g. homedir-pathnames, username, possible $DEBEMAIL or $DEBFULLNAME if you have them already configured, and anything you might have already hand-edited in the build-jack-fox-conf.sh config-file.

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Thank you. It was the DEBEMAIL line. I had to manually set it to my email. After that I had to manually create /usr/local/src/build-jack-fox

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Glad you got it working. I have left the die-and-warn for the missing directory because for now I prefer the least invasive approach, and as the warning clarifies that the directory is missing I think that makes it easy enough to manually create it - as you just did.

As for the other issue, I can't see how it was failing for you on the "DEBEMAIL line" (I guess you mean line 66?) because I have protected the invocation of the potentially missing command (getent, inside get_user_email()) so that it just outputs empty without failing, and then if empty in the end it replaces it with [email protected]. Can you please re-run it in debug mode without manually setting the email address and let me know where exactly it fails (i.e what command, what line number)?

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Running with -x and not setting the email address shows this.

• set -e
• basename build-jack-fox
• scriptname=build-jack-fox
• printf %s\n build-jack-fox
• sed -e s/./ /g
• scriptnspc=
• jack_dev_pkg_candidates=libjack-jackd2-dev libjack-dev
• srcdir_def=/usr/local/src/build-jack-fox
• local_version_suffix_def=local1
• local_version_suffix_regex_def=local[0-9]+
• jack_dev_pkg_def=libjack-jackd2-dev
• get_user_full_name
• • cut -d, -f1
    id -run
• cut -d: -f5
• getent passwd *****
• name_def=*****
• name_def=*****
• get_user_email
• id -run
• grep @
• sed -e s/^[^ \t]+:[ \t]+//
• getent aliases *****
• :
• email_def=

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Ah! Thanks for that - I found where the bug is. I forgot that when grep has no input it returns 1 which borks the set -e, so when the getent aliases finds nothing the grep '@' errors the script. I will fix that now (which will auto-close this issue), and once the fix is in you won't need to manually set the email address as a workaround.

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