Re: [389-devel] portability issue: scripts expecting /bin/sh to be bash

On 24.02.2014 18:41, Rich Megginson wrote:
> On 02/24/2014 03:16 AM, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I noticed that some shell scripts have bashisms in them, on Debian and
>> it's derivatives /bin/sh is dash. A quick list of scripts shipped by
>> 389-ds-base having this issue:
>>
>> monitor
>> ldif2db
>> ldif2ldap
>> db2bak
>> vlvindex
>> dn2rdn
>> restoreconfig
>> saveconfig
>> upgradedb
>> suffix2instance
>> dbverify
>>
>> but since I just ran all the scripts without any options, there might be
>> others too that fail with "unexpected operator" errors etc when ran in a
>> real environment. So maybe change all of them to use /bin/bash or
>> migrate them to be posix compatible (and somehow test new ones for
>> compliance)?
>>
>>
> I think they should be changed to be plain old posix bourne shell
> compatible - lowest common denominator. There's no reason to use bash
> specific features.
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/47511

Oh right, I remember this ticket now :) Will attach a new patch there.

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