[Pkg-xen-devel] Re: [Pkg-xen-changes] r34 - trunk/debian

[Guido Trotter]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 03:30:18PM +0100, Ralph Passgang wrote:

Hi,

> I added bash to the userspace tools dependencies, because a user have reported 
> that he only had dashinstalled on his system and noticed that some xen 
> scripts actually needs bash (because of bashisms), even if only /bin/sh is 
> the interpreter in those scripts.
> 
> I have not really checked for bashism or removed any, but I have added bash to 
> the dependencies.
> 
> We might want to check for bashism and remove them with a dpatch, then we 
> should be on the safe side.
> 

Also because I think depending on bash is insufficient, if the script has
/bin/sh as interpreter, since a user can have /bin/sh pointing to whatever shell
he wants! ;)

Guido