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Auteur: shraptor
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] vdev packaging effort ( was: state of what's working for modern desktop usage)
On 2016-02-12 10:50, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 12/02/2016 02:54, Rainer Weikusat a écrit :
>> Didier Kryn <kryn@???> writes:
>>
>>> Le 11/02/2016 17:04, Rainer Weikusat a écrit :
>>>> Didier Kryn <kryn@???> writes:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>>> It should be the name of a shell capable of running Bourne/
>>>>>> standard
>>>>>> shell scripts. But this may not work if the /bin/dash in the
>>>>>> original
>>>>>> script was there for a reason, ie, it was using dash features.
>>>>>>
>>>>>       As I already wrote, vdev was working well with busybox's 
>>>>> ash.,
>>>>> replacing 'dash' with 'sh' in the shebang.

>>>>>
>>>>>       If the question is why Jude replaced /bin/sh with /bin/dash 
>>>>> in the
>>>>> middle of the development, I think it was to make sure to not 
>>>>> invoke
>>>>> bash. But (sorry for the repetition) I used to modify the shebang
>>>>> everytime I tested a new version, and there was never any issue 
>>>>> with
>>>>> the shell.
>>>> There is no question here. *If* the script in question uses dash
>>>> spuriously, ie, it doesn't use features specific to dash but is 
>>>> actually
>>>> a Bourne shell script, replacing /bin/dash with /bin/sh should be
>>>> fine. If not, stuff is going to break sooner or later, either 
>>>> because
>>>> /bin/sh isn't really dash (eg, someone might use bash for that) or
>>>> because of difference between the busybox and Debian (d)ash forks.

>>>>
>>>      There shouldn't be any "feature specific to dash", by
>>> construction.
>> There are, "by construction". Eg, dash supports local, the POSIX 
>> /bin/sh
>> doesn't.
>     Then it seems Jude's scripts don't use that feature, and they 
> shouldn't.



If you check *.sh in vdev/vdevd/helpers/LINUX on git they use local



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