On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Darrell Anderson
<humanreadable@...> wrote:
>> > Getting the script to ask permission to migrate if
>> already in X is a
>> > challenge because the user's profile partially exists
>> when
>> > KPersonalizer starts. Therefore any migration needs to
>> happen before
>> > even an empty $HOME/.trinity exists. Can KDialog
>> commands be used at
>> > that point? If not then the only option is xmessage
>> (eew).
>>
>> Just an idea, I don't know if it's possible:
>> * Start KDE with a temporary KDEHOME (mktemp)
>> * Copy $HOME/.kde to $HOME/.trinity (if desired)
>> * Copy temporary files from $KDEHOME to $HOME/.trinity (if
>> needed)
>> * Set KDEHOME to $HOME/.trinity
>>   (or restart KDE, but it isn't elegant)
>
> To all:
>
> I uploaded the proposed migration script in bug report 705. This is a proposed script.
>
> My ego is not that big. Feel free to improve the script in all ways! I added comments in the areas I know needs improvement right now.
>
> Yet overall the script works wonderfully well here. So we're off to a good start. :)
>
> Darrell
>
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You might want to specify /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh. Debian and I
think Ubuntu also, use "dash" as default "sh".  I was testing your
script a little and got a "Bad substitution" error when
Wait_For_Response is called. I don't know exactly why but there is
info here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

After further reading that page, I believe it's the substring
expansion in that function that is the problem.  Also on that page is
mention of a "checkbashisms" script which I found here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/checkbaskisms/files/2.0.0.2/

I ran that script on your script and got:

possible bashism in migratekde3 line 69 (${foo:3[:1]}):
while [ "${response:0:1}" != "Y" ] && [ "${response:0:1}" != "y" ] &&
[ "${response:0:1}" != "N" ] && [ "${response:0:1}" != "n" ]; do
possible bashism in migratekde3 line 74 (read with option other than -r):
  read -er -n 1 -p "$1 (y/n): " response