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This erroneously appeared in -user and was appropiately ignored ;-) |
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Can somone with a bit more time than I have take a look? |
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//Spider |
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begin forwarded message: |
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 19:14:05 +0200 |
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From: Björn Lindström <bkhl@×××××××××××××.se> |
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To: gentoo-user@g.o |
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Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's trouble with /bin/sh |
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A while ago, after emerging the app-shells/ash .ebuild (still unstable), |
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I noticed that some essential bash-scripts in Gentoo, including qpkg, |
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are erroneously marked as sh-scripts. Also, /etc/profile includes |
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bash-specific settings with broken tests to see if the shell really is |
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bash. |
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Following this, I started a short discussion on the forums about this. |
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(http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=46245) |
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In short, I suggested that Gentoo adopt the Debian /bin/sh-policy, |
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quoted in the forum. |
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I was given the quite obvious suggestion to file bug reports for these |
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problems, since it is in all cases really easy to fix, without |
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disadvantages for anyone. |
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Here are my reports. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18914 |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18915 |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18918 |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19782 |
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Also vaguely related: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18922 |
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As you can see from the responses, almost none of these errors has been |
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fixed, the responsible developers at best seems to have no idea that |
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bash is not bourne shell, at worst start refering to the FHS (sic), |
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obviously without knowing what they are talking about. |
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Apart from the value of keeping Gentoo as POSIX compliant, this is bad |
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because a lot of performance-conscious Gentoo-users will probably want |
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to link /bin/sh to ash, saving precious memory and CPU-time, when that |
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shell interpreter gets marked stable in portage. |
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Also, I might add that I have /bin/sh linked to /bin/ash for a couple of |
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months now with no problems, after doing the fixes in the mentioned bug |
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reports. So I can safely urge you that are so inclined to try it out. |
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Björn Lindström <bkhl@×××××××××××××.se> |
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Home page: http://hem.fyristorg.com/bkhl/ |
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Blog: http://bkhl.livejournal.com/ |
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Elektrubadur demo: http://hem.fyristorg.com/bkhl/elektrubadur/ |
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