On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 12:16:02PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org> writes: > > System shells would (de)register themselves by calling add-system-shell > > in postinst and remove-system-shell in prerm. 'system-shell' would also > > be a virtual package provided by bash, dash and so on. Although I don't > How would that work with (c)debootstrap/multistrap when creating a > chroot for a foreign architecture? No maintainer script will be run in > those cases nor can they be run in general. We have the same problem with awk since ages. We should fix both problems together. Therefor I propose the following: - An essential or pseudo-essential (dependency or pre-dependency from an essential package) may include a new maintainer script. - This must be a /bin/sh script. - It may be called after the initial unpack of the bootstrap process. - It must be called outside of the new root, so it can assume that it can execute some essential commands. The other solution is to hardcode the setup like the awk link. > Some package needs to initially ship a /bin/sh binary or symlink, which > I would think dash should do (being the default sh). And the registering > in postinst could then later replace this with the proper mechanism > (which would still just be a symlink to dash by default I guess). This means that we will get a diversion just to please the bootstrap. Bastian -- Death, when unnecessary, is a tragic thing. -- Flint, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5843.7
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