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etckeeper package

  1. Bug #574244
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 574244

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Alex Muntada (alex.muntada) wrote : Re: etckeeper hook breaks 9.10→10.04 upgrade with "Argument list too long"

The last command in "/etc/etckeeper/post-install.d/50vcs-commit" does:

etckeeper commit "$(printf "$message")"

and $message is a very large string, larger than the shell permits. Either the commit message is shortened or etckeeper is modified to use an option to specify a log file.