Bug#482159: exim4-base: Install fails - init script fails "malformed or incomplete option"

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 02:43:48AM -0400, Mike Young wrote:
> Updating exim4 fails because the exim init script refuses to start the daemon.
> >From the changelog, I'm guessing this might be related to the quoting problems 
> encountered in a few recent bugs (476987 is one). This release is suppossed to 
> be fixed, so maybe this is an overlooked part?

Please verify that you have actually updated the init script. The init
script is a conffile, so if you have done manual changes (which
shouldn't be necessary) you need to manually interfere to allow the
update to proceed.

The relevant code should have constructs like
${COMMONOPTIONS:+"${COMMONOPTIONS}"} instead of the simply quoted stuff.

Greetings
Marc

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