[PATCH] Re: missing sh.exe in coreutils

Brian Dessent brian@dessent.net
Thu Sep 1 16:43:00 GMT 2005


Eric Blake wrote:

> Also, the following patch to setup.exe will solve the problem of bash
> upgrades.  Since bash is guaranteed to exist if the user didn't unselect
> Base packages, but sh is not, we might as well always use /bin/bash as the
> shell to spawn postinstall scripts.  Since it is used as "bash -c script",
> it will obey #! and use the actual shell desired; it is really only bash
> that needs this patch, since bash is the only one that must not be spawned
> by /bin/sh if it is to update /bin/sh.

Applied, thanks.

Brian



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