[pacman-dev] configurable shell for install scripts

[Allan McRae]

Hi,

I thought I'd run this past people on this list before I spent the two 
weeks that this would take me to figure out how to implement it!

This is motivated by experience packaging for Arch.   Install scriptlets 
are written assuming /bin/sh is bash, which is true on a default 
system.   But some people want to change their /bin/sh to (e.g.) dash.   
As pacman uses the default shell (as given by /bin/sh) to run install 
scriptlets, pointing /bin/sh at dash may cause failures when bash 
specific features are used.

So I thought, why not manually specify the shell for install scriptlets 
in pacman.conf.  Something like "INSTALL_SHELL=/bin/sh" by default.  
Then _alpm_runscriptlet would call something like "<shell> -c ". 
<scriptlet path> && <function>"  (which works for bash, dash, zsh, pdksh).

Comments?

Allan