> On systems with a separate /usr filesystem, several boot scripts in > level S break because they use commands from /usr/bin or > /usr/sbin. Culprits include scripts for essential packages that perform > system initialization. > > It would be desirable for Lintian to check that scripts that delcare > level S in their LSB header _only_ use commands from /bin and /sbin. > > Note: as Manoj noted, it would be pointless to add this to Policy, > since maintainers are already expected to verify this. Thus, Lintian > would introduce this check as additional idiot-proofing, to ensure that > systems can factually be built with a separate /usr filesystem.
The hard part about this is that lintian has no way of knowing which files are in /bin and /sbin. I suppose we could maintain a static list, but that looks extremely unattractive. I'm not sure that lintian is the right tool to use here. This looks to me like a hard problem, particularly given that checking this means knowing whether programs invoked without a path are actually shell built-ins (and since such an init script may be a /bin/bash script, there are lots of those). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
