On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:00:52AM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2008-07-15T15:18:26, Dejan Muhamedagic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There's a tool in Debian which finds bashisms: > > > > checkbashisms(1) > > > > It should find most of bash features. Otherwise, I don't know any > > conversion guides. You should be able to find shell references on > > Internet. If in doubt, please ask on the list. > > We pull in XML libraries, python, perl, tls, not to mention that the > cluster will usually be hosting an actual application or several, but > then try to not require bash - a package which is smaller than even the > heartbeat package.
The bash shell is also around ten times bigger and more complex then a POSIX compatible shell. That should also be taken into account. > That is, sorry, a complete waste of time. I never understood why the > project even bothered, and figure it must be some archaic time where > bash was not universally available. > > Just put bash into the default dependencies and be done with it. > > Sorry if that sounds harsh, but we really have more important topics ;-) > > > Regards, > Lars > > -- > Teamlead Kernel, SuSE Labs, Research and Development > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N?rnberg) > "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde > > _______________________________________________________ > Linux-HA-Dev: [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev > Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/ _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
