On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Thomas Bächler wrote:
Allan McRae schrieb:
fakeroot echo (coreutils)
echo is a shell builtin, /bin/echo will never be used.
<snip> As I said, echo is a shell builtin, and unless we call /bin/echo explicitly, the builtin will be used (it's not only a builtin in bash, but also dash, so we should be fine). We could replace 'cat XYZ | command' with 'command < XYZ'.
The install scripts for lilo and vi also fail if bash is not installed (for some unknown reason). Lilo is just and old style "/bin/true" script so is easily fixed but I do not understand these two issues...
No idea here too, maybe one of the commands calls /bin/sh or so. Making lilo and vi depend on "sh" or so is okay IMO.
The echo stuff is just as weird as what is happening with vi and lilo. But I can replicate the for errors the packages using echo with both makchrootpkg and "pacman -Sr <root> pkg". Installing bash before these packages fixes the issue (dash does not). Anyone know what is causing this?
Yes- /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/bash, in the bash package. dash cannot install this symlink as it would obviously conflict (although if Ubuntu can do it...). Pacman simply shells out to /bin/sh, so if you create the relevant symlink, things will just work with dash as well. See near the end of the PKGBUILD: http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/dash/trunk/PKGBUILD?revision=25648&view=markup -Dan P.S. There is a new version of dash in [testing] if anyone has noticed; I was going to wait for signoffs after the ISO release.