Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 16:07:02 +0900
From: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
To: "Daniel F. Dickinson" <dfdpublic@wildtechgarden.ca>
Cc: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: Fixing shell script libraries like /lib/libalpine.sh
Message-ID: <Yr1Lll3DNQGGeAGt@codewreck.org>
References: <4caa8c5f-7ebf-ad2f-0e92-29428785fe60@wildtechgarden.ca>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
In-Reply-To: <4caa8c5f-7ebf-ad2f-0e92-29428785fe60@wildtechgarden.ca>

Daniel F. Dickinson wrote on Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 02:16:49AM -0400:
> # test the first argument against the remaining ones, return success on
> a match
> isin() {
>     local _a=$1 _b
>     shift
>     for _b; do
>         [ "$_a" = "$_b" ] && return 0
>     done
>     return 1
> }
> 
> _b is never assigned a value. This is why automating ntp setup fails
> (specifically the following code in /sbin/setup-ntp) will never skip the
> 'ask':

`for _b; do` is identical to `for _b in "$@"; do` and assigns the values
properly.
The function works properly for me.

setup-ntp also works for me, what exactly are you experiencing or
expecting?

--
Asmadeus | Dominique Martinet