A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=1101 ====================================================================== Reported By: james Assigned To: car ====================================================================== Project: findutils Issue ID: 1101 Category: regular use Reproducibility: sometimes Severity: tweak Priority: normal Status: acknowledged ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2005-07-26 18:10 CEST Last Modified: 2011-05-16 10:48 CEST ====================================================================== Summary: gupdatedb mktemp and ! Description: This started as a request for mktemp but even with mktemp gupdatedb needs a tweak. Without CSWmktemp: $ gupdatedb --old-format Warning: future versions of findutils will shortly discontinue support for the old locate database format. /opt/csw/bin/gupdatedb: mktemp: not found /opt/csw/bin/gupdatedb: !: not found /opt/csw/bin/gupdatedb: mktemp: not found /opt/csw/bin/gupdatedb: !: not found
Install CSWmktemp which is not in the findutils depend list and it still fails: $ gupdatedb --old-format Warning: future versions of findutils will shortly discontinue support for the old locate database format. /opt/csw/bin/gupdatedb: !: not found /opt/csw/bin/gupdatedb: !: not found becasue the ! is not /bin/sh, I guess the was written for a system that emulated sh with something else, probably bash. #!/bin/ksh at the top will fix it. ====================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0009048) jay (reporter) - 2011-05-14 15:05 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=1101#c9048 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ! is required by POSIX. See section 2.9.2 of http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html It looks like the ultimate problem is that the source distribution hard-codes the interpreter: $ head -n1 locate/updatedb.sh #! /bin/sh In other words, findutils assumes /bin/sh is POSIX-compliant. If that's not true on your systems, you will need to path that I think. Lack of mktemp is trickier. Looks like you may need your findutils package to depend on something that provides it, if the base OS does not. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0009056) james (developer) - 2011-05-16 10:48 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=1101#c9056 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The date on the POSIX reference is 2004 and this bug was registered in 2005. It is highly likely at that time, using Solaris 8, /bin/sh was not POSIX compliment. Whether is was or not is not relevant to the fact of the matter being that gupdatedb failed on a target system and was fixable using the suggestion I made in 2005. On Solaris 9, the current base system, gupdatedb and ! negation works. Is this proof that if reports are ignored for long enough there exists a probability that bugs will fix themselves? And if we wait long enough this bug report could morph into the complete works of Shakespeare. _______________________________________________ bug-notifications mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-notifications
