On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 4:57 PM Japheth Cleaver <clea...@terabithia.org> wrote: > > On 3/25/2019 8:02 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 12:59 +0100, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > > And since RPM appears to be configurable for the > default interpreter, have it use /usr/bin/bash by default. > > TBH, it seems to me reasonable that we just do this. > > If our position is that we actually expect Fedora package scriptlets to > be executed by bash and don't think it's a problem if they don't work > when executed by some other shell, why not this make this clear and > explicit in this way instead of having the default be sh, but then tell > people sh must be bash? > > One caveat: I'm not sure current RPM allows this to be configured separately > for builds versus installs. > > There's a %_buildshell macro as of 2.4.101, but this only references > %prep/%build/%install/%check/etc... > https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/blob/ba85c95963f9b62f237c0442f6b5aca3e355fa83/macros.in#L801 > > https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/blob/ff4b9111aeba01dd025dd133ce617fb80f7398a0/lib/rpmscript.c#L408 > ...seems like the default for unspecified %pre/%post/etc scriptlets might > fall to the compiled-in /bin/sh. And the configuration of *that* might be the > rejected proposal at > http://web.archive.org/web/20150821020837/http://rpm.org/ticket/877
Interesting in a sad way, thanks for looking that up! Dridi _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
