On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We had a discussion about this in: > > http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1962 > > and although that got resolved, I was trying to head off potential future > problems.
That was fixed upstream. Most of the upstream devs recognize the fact that bash may not be the default shell. > > See also the thread starting at: > > http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2008-April/061181.html That is because gawk is not installed so it falls back to awk. If gawk is installed, it does not cause any issues. > > We don't know in advance all the host systems the users may choose, so > heading > off potential problems is proactive. > If we want to be proactive, we should install updated packages in /tools and mark them as optional if the host already satisfies the requirements rather than updating the host requirements. Also, in some cases it may not be possible to update the host (for example livecds). -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
