Dan McGee wrote:
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Allan McRae <al...@archlinux.org> wrote:
Thomas Bächler wrote:
Allan McRae schrieb:
fakeroot
echo (coreutils)
echo is a shell builtin, /bin/echo will never be used.
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As I said, echo is a shell builtin, and unless we call /bin/echo
explicitly, the builtin will be used (it's not only a builtin in bash, but
also dash, so we should be fine). We could replace 'cat XYZ | command' with
'command < XYZ'.
The install scripts for lilo and vi also fail if bash is not installed
(for some unknown reason). Lilo is just and old style "/bin/true" script so
is easily fixed but I do not understand these two issues...
No idea here too, maybe one of the commands calls /bin/sh or so. Making
lilo and vi depend on "sh" or so is okay IMO.
The echo stuff is just as weird as what is happening with vi and lilo. But
I can replicate the for errors the packages using echo with both
makchrootpkg and "pacman -Sr <root> pkg". Installing bash before these
packages fixes the issue (dash does not). Anyone know what is causing
this?
Yes- /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/bash, in the bash package. dash
cannot install this symlink as it would obviously conflict (although
if Ubuntu can do it...). Pacman simply shells out to /bin/sh, so if
you create the relevant symlink, things will just work with dash as
well.
OK, that explains why dash does not help, but why are those install
scripts failing? Are you saying that the system needs bash installed
before it can run post_install scripts? More directly to the issue, why
do post_install scripts with "echo" in them fail if bash is not
installed when others seem to run fine (or at least do not report an error)?
Allan
