This one time, at band camp, Micah Anderson said: > Hi Joey, > > After I got this bug report I spent quite a bit of time trying to > convert the various backupninja bashisms to POSIX so that it would work > with dash/ash. I learned a few things about POSIX shell scripting that > showed me how I depend on some of the higher-level data structures and > aids that shells like Bash have. Its frustrating not having arrays > available. > > I thought this would be easy originally, as the first few issues were > relatively trivial to fix, but as I went deeper and deeper I realized > that backupninja depends on a lot of bashisms. This is especially true > because we use easydialog, which is repelete with arrays and other > bashisms. Worse is that the code in each of the handlers also has > bashisms and I did not write all of them so I would either need the > cooperation of the people who wrote them or I need to try and go through > and re-factor each one by first figuring out exactly what it does and > then how to make it do it in a less elegant way. Not a bad winter > project, but the contributors of the handlers would also need to be > convinced that fixes to their handlers will have to be done in a POSIX > manner... > > Anyways, I'm curious of how deep this requirement is... The backupninja > main script has #!/bin/bash as its header, but my guess is that it needs > to be POSIX capable to be used in something like tasksel? If so, then > maybe not everything involved needs to be ported to POSIX...?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but these aren't maintainer scripts we're talking about here, right? Just make sure all the scripts that contain bashisms declare #!/bin/bash at the top, depend on bash, and you're done. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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