At Fri, 27 Aug 2004 05:44:30 -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 04:13:08PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > > If you have concrete reason to use /bin/bash, please tell us. It's > > also good idea to send us the non-bashism shell script. Otherwise, I > > prefer to close it. > > I have some of this already from David Weinholdt but I'm waiting until > after Sarge releases to put it in.
That's nice. > Technically policy says that if we're using /bin/sh, we should be > pure posix, (No XSIisms, even). However, glibc has existed like > this for multiple releases, and if this becomes an RC bug, I think > we should just ask the release managers to ignore it for Sarge. Yes, indeed. I don't think it's sarge RC bug. BTW, even we use /bin/bash, do we have reason to use /bin/sh? If so, why? bash is included in the base system. We use various tools for postinst/preinst, because those tools are also in the bootstrapping base system. Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
