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From: Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] init.d scripts and bash
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:00:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1173398450.31695.26.camel@onyx.private.gni.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1173369604.5480.20.camel@localhost>

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 17:00 +0100, Natanael Copa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Are there anybody more than me that use the gentoo init.d scripts
> without using bash?
> 
> Most init.d scripts runs just fine with a small runscript wrapper. A few
> needs patching to work, typically replacing:
> 
>   [[ expr || expr ]]
> 
> with:
> 
>   [[ expr ]] || [[ expr ]]
> 
> But sometimes arrays and such are used (very often its easy to work
> around)
> 
> Are there any hope for setting a gentoo policy that says bash specific
> things should be avoided if possible in init.d scripts?

That is a goal with baselayout-2. I'd be interested if we started a
tracker bug for such things. I think policy might be a bit far 
reaching at this point. But it's for sure a worthwhile goal.

-- 
Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-09  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-08 16:00 [gentoo-embedded] init.d scripts and bash Natanael Copa
2007-03-09  0:00 ` Ned Ludd [this message]
     [not found]   ` <20070309073937.154cff79@uberpc.marples.name>
2007-03-09  9:08     ` Ned Ludd
2007-03-09 10:06       ` Natanael Copa
2007-03-09 11:51       ` Natanael Copa
     [not found]         ` <20070309115825.52cd9d73@uberlaptop>
2007-03-09 12:58           ` Natanael Copa
     [not found]             ` <20070309142717.6373940c@uberlaptop.development.ltl>
2007-03-09 15:12               ` Natanael Copa

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