On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Ста Деюс <sthu.d...@openmailbox.org> wrote:
> Hi.
>
>
> Why bash script (the install script), that works in "Debian", does not
> work on "Gentoo" install CD, giving me syntax errors (basically related
> to '(', ')' and ''')? In the script is the interpreter line
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> and both systems contain bash, that interprets the script, why the
> difference on syntax?
>Can you attach to bash script you are running and the exact error messages? It is hard to say (at least for me) without seeing it; bash to bash portability issues are something I have never heard of. As a guess there are a variety of options you can change while running in the interpreter with the "set" command that can also be set in configuration files or the command line. Also possible is that the install CD contains a gimped version of bash, but typically then it's not called bash. It could also be running it with "set -o posix" for some reason. > > PS Why no semi/full -automatic install script/package in "Gentoo"? > The installation process at its core involves preparing the disks and then extracting the stage 3 to them. Disk preparation can be exceedingly complicated and making an automated installer that supports all possible setups is pretty hard, only fairly recently have distributions like Debian been able to offer automatic setup of encrypted LVM volume groups. Some possible configurations (per PV keys) still aren't supported. The other part is creating a kernel. For that there is genkernel, but it just compiles everything in. I'm not sure that counts as configuration but it is automatic. I do think the handbook leaves far too many things out that normal users would need. I'm trying to compile a list of useful x86/PC related things to add to the handbook at some point, like useful default make.conf and portage options. There's also a lot of configuration files to sort through, documenting files of interest (if not providing some default configuration for them) is probably a good idea. R0b0t1.
