On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:58:05PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: | dman wrote: | > I use bash as my shell. However the depends for initrd and/or | > kernel-image want ash,... | | Fine, but if they really need it they have to call it as 'ash' or they are | buggy.
I guess you mean at runtime, not in the Depends: line. I would agree with you on that. | > ...so /bin/sh is ash. | | You shouldn't need that: see above. While in theory /bin/sh -> ash should [...] | There is no need to make ash your system shell just because a few packages | depend on it. Right, but I figured I might as well have a more compact system shell since bash is specified as my login shell anyways. I shouldn't notice a difference, unless I track memory usage closely (because ash should use less memory than bash for scripts that use /bin/sh). | work since all maintainer scripts that use /bin/sh are supposed to be free | of bashisms, in practice there may still be a few that aren't. That would become a (my) problem, and I guess that would be up to me to debug on my system (or just switch shells) :-). The X 4.1.0-3 install scripts are an example that makes your point. | Craig Dickson wrote: | > I have ash installed also, but my /bin/sh --> bash. So I don't think that | > the ash install script makes that association,... | | Of course not. ash does not conflict with bash. Why should it? It's just | another shell, like tcsh and ksh. It just installs itself as /bin/ash and | leaves /bin/sh alone. Actually, IIRC, it uses debconf and asks you if you want /bin/sh to point to ash or whether you want it left alone. | I can't find any kernel-image package that depends on ash, and initrd-tools | wants it so that it can put it in the image (bash is too big). I didn't look at the individual dependencies, I just tried to remove ash to see what would disappear. As initrd-tools depends on ash, and kernel-image depends on initrd-tools both would disappear as a result of removing ash. Ok, running 'dpkg-reconfigure ash' brings up that dialog that asks whether or not I want to make /bin/sh point to ash. -D
