Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dash 0.5.6-1

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

On 18/05/10 14:28, Dan McGee wrote:

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On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Pierre Schmitz  wrote:

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On Sat, 15 May 2010 15:48:46 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:

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On 15/05/10 12:09, Dan McGee wrote:

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Signoff both architectures, new-ish upstream version. We no longer build statically with klibc since it doesn't exist; instead this is linked against glibc. It is still super lightweight though.

Signoff both.

Although...   given this is no longer statically linked, does this need to stay in the base group, or even [core]?

Good question. I had to look it up: Dan introduced the dash package to have a non-breakable shell in core and a future provider of /bin/sh. But the latter wasn't implemented yet and no other package depends on it. So I guess we could safely remove it from core/base and add it to extra.

Well since we have been busted as hell at requiring scripts to be strictly sh-compatible, this hasn't been able to slip in as our default sh (even something Ubuntu could pull off). I guess I don't care what you guys want to do with it since no one really cares about having a fast and stable sh interpreter; I gave up on this pursuit a while back as no one else seemed interested.

Well, if we eventually want dash as /bin/sh, then it definitely needs to stay in [core].

Is there a bug report/wiki page or anything detailing what we need to do to make that change?  It has been so long since this was brought up, I have forgotten what has and has not been done.

* http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-November/003053.... * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/dash-as-bin-sh * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh * All install scripts must be sh-compatible (or we need a way of executing non-sh scripts, there is a bug open for that) * Any daemon/init script is probably written for /bin/bash as our rc.conf and other initscripts files use bash arrays, so those need to be pointed correctly I think it is something like that. We should probably drop this into a wiki page; I also know there have been various pushes from within the community that seem to have been snuffed out along the way as well. -Dan