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[7/7] builddeb: Try to get the user full name from the GECOS field

Message ID 20200920222556.10002-8-guillem@hadrons.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series builddeb: Improve Debian packaging | expand

Commit Message

Guillem Jover Sept. 20, 2020, 10:25 p.m. UTC
The GECOS field might contain the full name for the username, try to
use that and fallback to using the username if that is empty.

Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
---
 scripts/package/mkdebian | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/scripts/package/mkdebian b/scripts/package/mkdebian
index ed77d0948fa3..e3d0b7ac9057 100755
--- a/scripts/package/mkdebian
+++ b/scripts/package/mkdebian
@@ -113,7 +113,8 @@  if echo $email | grep -q '<.*>'; then
 else
 	# or construct the maintainer string
 	user=${KBUILD_BUILD_USER-$(id -nu)}
-	name=${DEBFULLNAME-$user}
+	name=${DEBFULLNAME-$(getent passwd $user | cut -d: -f5 | cut -d, -f1)}
+	: "${name:=$user}"
 	if [ -z "$email" ]; then
 		buildhost=${KBUILD_BUILD_HOST-$(hostname -f 2>/dev/null || hostname)}
 		email="$user@$buildhost"