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Lähettäjä: Alessandro Selli
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Aihe: Re: [DNG] yet another case of silly Lennartism :p [Fwd: Our buildsystem may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin]
On 21/11/18 at 17:57, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:43:12 +0100
> Alessandro Selli <alessandroselli@???> wrote:
>
>> On 21/11/18 at 17:37, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>> On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:28:40 +0100
>>> Alessandro Selli <alessandroselli@???> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 21/11/18 at 17:22, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
>>>>> Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2018 schrieb Hendrik Boom:
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> I read the discussion at
>>>>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1642443.html
>>>>>> and it looks as if they fixed the discrepancy at version 3.5.1-2.
>>>>>> Which means if we want to keep sed in /bin instead of /usr/bin we
>>>>>> may have to patch both packages sed and r-base.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Or maybe add a symblic link to make sed accessible from /usr/bin
>>>>>> instead of just /bin.
>>>>> Why would anybody hardcode the link to sed in the first place?
>>>>> Isn't that what $PATH is all about?
>>>>   It's necessary to keep script shebangs from breaking.
>>>>
>>> No it isn't, ever heard of 'which' or 'type' or checking if the file
>>> actually exists.
>>>
>>> Rowland
>>>
>>   Of course it is.  If you have a file with a shebang like this:
>>
>>
>> #!/bin/sed
>>
>> , which is the norm, see:
>>
>> https://github.com/uuner/sedtris/blob/master/sedtris.sed
>>
>> , then you'd be in trouble if sed moved in /usr/bin.
> Well it would if you were trying to run sed directly,



  Which side of "sed script with a shebang" do you fail to grasp?


> but in this case
> it is setting the path to sed as a variable, so, if the script
> '/usr/bin/R' used something like this:
>
> SED="$(which sed)"
> if [ -z "$SED" ]; then
>     echo 'sed is not installed'
>     exit 1
> fi
> export SED

>
> instead of:
> SED=/bin/sed
> export SED



  Try putting this in place of a sed shebang and see what happens to
your sed script.


> We wouldn't be having this conversation.



... if you were any knowledgeable about shell scripting.


>>
>>   Of course you know you can't use commands or shell constructs in
>> place of the shebang, you did shell_scripting-101, didn't you?
>>
> We are not talking about the shebang, you did know that, didn't you ?



  Of course we are, why don't you read before replying?



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