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Package: shorewall-common
Version: 4.0.10-1
Severity: minor
shorewall-common and shorewall-shell both depend on dash because of bashisms in
scripts.
dash is not installed on my system. I use bash. With my understanding of the
problem, bash would work well with shorewall.
Or I'm missing something else.
Please make shorewall-* packages depend on 'bash | dash'.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored:
LC_ALL set to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages shorewall-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.21 Debian configuration management sy
ii iproute 20080108-1 Professional tools to control the
ii iptables 1.4.0-3 administration tools for packet fi
shorewall-common recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
shorewall-common/major_release:
shorewall-common/dont_restart:
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On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:14:29PM +0200, Kevin Baradon wrote:
> Package: shorewall-common
> Version: 4.0.10-1
> Severity: minor
>
> shorewall-common and shorewall-shell both depend on dash because of bashisms
> in scripts.
>
> dash is not installed on my system. I use bash. With my understanding of the
> problem, bash would work well with shorewall.
> Or I'm missing something else.
>
> Please make shorewall-* packages depend on 'bash | dash'.
>
>
If you look at #468698 and #468699, you will find that the bashisms are
in fact quite pedantic. The problem is that while all the affected
files work properly with /bin/sh as bash, I had to either change all the
files to not have bashisms (which was something like a 3000-4000 line
change and not suitable for a stable branch of Shorewall) or change the
interpreter specs to use /bin/dash. The problem with the latter
solution is that now dash is required. If I set 'bash | dash' then you
could install shorewall without also installing dash. However, without
dash present, you would get something like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat test
#!/bin/baz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./test
bash: ./test: /bin/baz: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
In particular, the lack of dash would cause shorewall to quit working.
So, I really don't have another option. If you prefer, you can download
the source package and rebuild the package without the sh -> dash patch
and without the dependency on dash. There are instructions on how to
rebuild a customized Debian package on my personal website if you need
help with that.
Another thing to consider is that it is a release goal to change the
default sh from bash to dash for Lenny. If this happens, basically
every one will have dash installed regardless.
In any event, several weeks ago (or maybe a couple of months now) I
applied the whole 3000-4000 line patch to the upstream trunk of
shorewall. Once shorewall 4.2 is released, dash will no longer be a
requirement (on Debian that is) since the shell command language used
will be entirely POSIX compliant.
That said, I am closing this bug.
Regards,
-Roberto
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