Hi Roberto,

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 03:29:17PM -0400, Chris AtLee wrote:
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  > I believe I've fixed the relevant bashisms for this package.  The new
>  > packages can be found here:
>  > http://atlee.ca/software/shorewall/
>  >
>  You built shorewall-common as a Debian native package and the .tar.gz
>  file returns a 403 error when I try to access it.

Sorry about that, I've fixed the permissions.

>  In any event, I looked at the shorewall-lite package you prepared.  This
>  particular matter is one that is being dealt with upstream.  The 4.0
>  branch of shorewall is a stable release.  The diff to fix every
>  occurrence of bashisms is 2743 lines.  That is a huge diff for something
>  that is a stable release.  In the next upload of the packages, I intend
>  to simply replace /bin/sh with /bin/dash and then depend upon dash.
>
>  Regards,
>
>  -Roberto

Will replacing /bin/sh with /bin/dash really fix the problems though?
I suppose it will cause shorewall to break if a non-portable bashism
is used.  How would this interact with SHOREWALL_SHELL in
shorewall.conf?

Cheers,
Chris


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