Re: POSIXLY_CORRECT and install scripts

[Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>]

Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:59:35PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> >This wreaks havoc with maintainer scripts. A lot of packages use su to do
> >parts of their install and a lot of them use the "su -" syntax.
> 
> Examples? I didn't see any in a cursory search.

Hm, it was more subtle than I realized. It's used in some /etc/init.d scripts
and those are often called from maintainer scripts. An example is postgresql

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greg