On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:55:24AM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > I'd appreciate tests and comments from the desktop crowd. > > There are bashisms in the rarian-* scripts, so... s/bash/ksh is not > enough, the scripts should be patched to be shell-agnostic. > > $ sudo /usr/local/bin/rarian-sk-update > /usr/local/bin/rarian-sk-update[216]: syntax error: `$old_time' missing > expression operator
Oops, i didn't notice this. Sorry. > Just as the Unix-like OS world is made of Linux/x86, it seems shell == > bash everywhere now. It is sad but most of the time I talked to upstream > projects about this, they'd just not care... 'just install bash and be > done with it...' is usually the answer. My experience with upstream isn't as bad if it comes to portability (regarding posix in general or different shells). But for my pet ports, upstream probably behaves better than for mainstream desktop stuff. > This issue will continue to grow. Next version of xfg-utils which is a > super small utility will require bash too for the same reason... and it > is not always easy to get around these bashisms :( > > Anyway, I like your idea, you just nee to complete it :) I will complete it, but not before i got the guile updates (including lilypond) and the ksh 64bit stuff (which really scares me) into shape.
