[Answered] Question regarding the default system shell

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 09:58 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
 On Sun, Jul 26 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
 
 
  My question is: will it ever happen that I may safely leave 
/bin/sh - dash 
  while running an upgrade without fearing a maintainer script
  fails?
 
 I think that any script failure when using dash or bash as
  /bin/sh would represent a significant bug in that package.
 
 manoj
  would be nice if we can say that for more shells than just bash or dash.

OK, I'll switch back to dash just to make sure I don't write bashisms :)

Thanks Manoj and Lars, my concern in this issue is sufficiently answered.

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[Answered] Question regarding the default system shell

[Siggy Brentrup]

Hi Stefano,

you must have missed my followup to Manoj.

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 18:35 +0200, you wrote:
 On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 02:04:51PM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
My question is: will it ever happen that I may safely leave 
  /bin/sh - dash 
   Been there. Done that. Had no problems.
 
 Been there too. Done that too. Had no problems as well.

  I'm not sure about it because there were lots of other problems to
  solve when I upgraded my SGI Indy r5k that ran a sid from '04, I
 
 Well, you asked for some feedback and you got some positive. I can
 just re-state that positive feedback. I'm writing to you from an
 debian/unstable machine which I use daily, and on which I switched to
 dash about 6 months ago. Since then I've had not a single problem
 ... at the point that when this discussion fired up again I had to
 check my /bin/sh to be sure that I actually changed the link back
 then.

Iirc the problems must have been in pre-etch or etch maintainer scripts
and I worked around them by pointing /bin/sh to bash.  I guess nobody
wants reports from that dist-upgrade.

 If your '03/'04 memories are different, then apparently we managed to
 fix quite a lot of bugs since then :-)

You conviniently didn't cite me not counting removed bashisms :)
Style and length of discussions w/o a consensus seem to be still
the same.

 Please give it another try and report any issue you find.

I did so half an hour before you sent your message :) 
Be assured I'll report any issue I happen to run over.

Anyway, many thanks for your confirmation
  Siggy

ps: While I was writing this the Indy is building openssh to check
whether -fPIC broke ssh  friends on mips. Same procedure with
postfix will follow, 2 packages I had to downgrade for a usable
sid.
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