Control: tags -1 + patch
On 2017-04-18 15:57 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 04:33:55PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>On 2017-04-18 14:52 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>>
>>> Just tested this - it appears that posh doesn't include "type", which
>>> is what debootstrap is using to check what's available. I don't
>>> personally know if "type" is a hard requirement in a posix shell here.
>>
>>It's not. The portable equivalent would be 'command -v', however posh
>>does not implement that either, since it only became mandatory in
>>POSIX.1-2008. I'm afraid there is no easy better solution: while
>>'which' would always work on Debian systems, it's not guaranteed to be
>>available elsewhere.
>
> Joy. :-(
>
> There are other hacky ways of trying this out - try "type ls" to see
> if type works, then fall back to which, etc. Or actually try running
> the extractor command (xzcat /dev/null), and check for the return
> code.
This wouldn't work, since /dev/null is not in xz format. ;-)
Fortunately there is a better solution: Joey Hess has already put an
in_path() function (basically a stripped-down version of debianutils'
which command) that can be used instead. See the attached patch which
worked for me (I did not dare to symlink posh to /bin/sh, but rather
changed the shebang in /usr/sbin/debootstrap to test it).
Cheers,
Sven
>From 620ec3850c483d75b7c71fdcfc925101fa1f26f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:21:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid the 'type' shell command
It is not mandatory in POSIX and tus not implemented by posh. Use the
in_path function instead which is taylored for this need.
---
functions | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/functions b/functions
index e22d4a0..982174d 100644
--- a/functions
+++ b/functions
@@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ extract_ar_deb_field () {
*) error 1 UNKNOWNCONTROLCOMP "Unknown compression type for %s in %s" "$tarball" "$pkg" ;;
esac
- if type $cat_cmd >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ if in_path $cat_cmd >/dev/null 2>&1; then
ar -p "$pkg" "$tarball" | $cat_cmd |
tar -O -xf - control ./control 2>/dev/null |
grep -i "^$field:" | sed -e 's/[^:]*: *//' | head -n 1
@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ extract_ar_deb_data () {
*) error 1 UNKNOWNDATACOMP "Unknown compression type for %s in %s" "$tarball" "$pkg" ;;
esac
- if type $cat_cmd >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ if in_path $cat_cmd >/dev/null 2>&1; then
ar -p "$pkg" "$tarball" | $cat_cmd | tar $EXTRACT_DEB_TAR_OPTIONS -xf -
else
error 1 UNPACKCMDUNVL "Extracting %s requires the %s command, which is not available" "$pkg" "$cat_cmd"
@@ -944,7 +944,7 @@ choose_extractor () {
if [ -n "$EXTRACTOR_OVERRIDE" ]; then
extractor="$EXTRACTOR_OVERRIDE"
- elif type dpkg-deb >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ elif in_path dpkg-deb >/dev/null 2>&1; then
extractor="dpkg-deb"
else
extractor="ar"
--
2.11.0
