On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:09:13AM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Nov 16, 2007 6:04 AM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Roman Kyrylych schrieb: > > >> bash 3.2.025-2 -> depends on readline>=5.2 > > >> readline 5.2-5 -> depends on ncurses > > >> ncurses 5.6-6 -> depends on glibc > > >> glibc 2.7-7 -> depends on bash -> oops! > > >> > > >> But it looks like there are other ones as well. > > >> > > > > > > I'd say we remove glibc dependency from ncurses or bash dependency > > > from glibc. :-/ > > > /me scratches his head > > > > This cyclic dependency cannot be avoided: bash needs glibc to be > > executed, but glibc needs bash in its post_install. > > I do know one way to resolve this.... we can ship something like dash > for /bin/sh _only_ and depend on that... sounds like a headache, but > it'd work
Wouldn't that mean that anything that used /bin/sh as its interpreter would have to be valid dash script and not the bash script that we expected? Jason
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