Re: Shipping /bin/sh [Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?]
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 06:52:41PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> 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 called
"bootstrap" in its control.tar.
- This script must be executable and use /bin/sh as interpreter.
- The rules for essential packages must be fulfilled after this script
was executed.
- It should be called by the bootstrap process after the initial unpack
of the owning package or all packages in the essential set.
- It must be called outside of the new root, so it can assume that it
can execute some essential commands.
- It must not access other scripts or executables in the new root.
For now two packages will get such a script:
- dash (setup of /bin/sh)
- base-files (setup of /usr/bin/awk)
The bootstrap process may work this:
- The data.tar of every package in the essential set is unpacked.
- The bootstrap scripts from the control.tar of every package in the
essential set is extracted and executed.
Bastian
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