[pacman-dev] [PATCH] libalpm: Explicitly run install scriptlets in bash.

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Xavier<shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Aaron Griffin<aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Another thought would be to make the scriptlet executable and pass the
>> "function" as an arg to the script, this way we can support
>> #!/bin/bash and #!/bin/sh as well as a myriad of other things
>
> Then we need to put back the 3 magic lines in the few scripts where
> they were removed, don't we?
>
> In any cases, it shouldn't be difficult to do that change
> automatically on all scriptlets in the repo.
> And either way, I think this should be done. Either remove these lines
> from all scriptlets, or make sure all scriptlets have them.

Yeah, I'm not advocating it, just saying it's a possibility. I think I
might actually like Loui's proposal, although it needs to be more
complex:
Check for ROOTDIR/bin/bash, if it exists, use it
Else, check for ROOTDIR/bin/sh and use THAT if it exists
If none exist, warn and carry on