Excerpts from Thomas Goirand's message of 2014-02-09 05:14:17 -0800: > Hi, > > While we can discuss during literally *years* about which init system to > use, I think it's more productive to try to improve what we have in > packages, so I'd like to talk about that. > > One thing that bothers me is that some of our sysv-rc init.d scripts > aren't using /bin/sh as interpreter. > > For example, on my laptop, the only one that I have is MySQL. Then after > fixing the shebang and running checkbashism, I can only see: > > possible bashism in /etc/init.d/mysql line 86 (echo -e): > echo -e "$ps_alive processes alive and '$MYADMIN ping' resulted > in\n$ping_output\n" | $ERR_LOGGER -p daemon.debug > > That's it... So that's a typical case where it should be possible to fix > things, and get rid of bash. >
Is that really an important goal to spend our time on? A shell is a shell.. would it be reasonable to want to get rid of all perl scripts in packages too? > If possible, I'd like to make a survey of what kind of interpreter > packages are using for /etc/init.d scripts. How can I do that? Note that > this would make OpenRC maintainer's life more easy, and avoid ugly hacks. > > Is it too late to fix this as a release goal, so that we get every init > script to use /bin/sh? > > Cheers, > > Thomas Goirand (zigo) > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1391959271-sup-4...@fewbar.com
