Re: sh compliance problems

2005-07-06 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
DJ Lucas wrote: Yes, I had thought about suggesting that, however held it for a few reasons, the most important is that we don't install ash in LFS. Not breaking BLFS is IMHO more important. Also with hotplug-ng coming... Forget about hotplug-ng. It's already dead, to be replaced with the

Re: sh compliance problems

2005-07-06 Thread DJ Lucas
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: > >> mountkernfs script succeeds, however it leaves behind messages (merged) >> when sh is a symlink to ash. '&>' does not redirect. Suggest '2>&1>'. >> Also, I'm not sure what version of hotplug right this second, but the >> math early on in the f

Re: sh compliance problems

2005-07-06 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
DJ Lucas wrote: mountkernfs script succeeds, however it leaves behind messages (merged) when sh is a symlink to ash. '&>' does not redirect. Suggest '2>&1>'. Also, I'm not sure what version of hotplug right this second, but the math early on in the following files is also broken with ash symli

Re: sh compliance problems

2005-07-05 Thread Nathan Coulson
On 7/5/05, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: > > > AFAICT, there is no easy way to do hexadecimal expansion in ashI > > don't think it's worth fixing. > > I believe the "customary" way is to use bc for arithmetic. Of course > that introduces a dependency. > > Personal

Re: sh compliance problems

2005-07-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: > AFAICT, there is no easy way to do hexadecimal expansion in ashI > don't think it's worth fixing. I believe the "customary" way is to use bc for arithmetic. Of course that introduces a dependency. Personally, I don't see a good reason not to use bash. I know its been disc

Re: sh compliance problems

2005-07-04 Thread DJ Lucas
DJ Lucas wrote: > the > math early on in the following files is also broken with ash symlinked > to /bin/sh. hotplug-2004_09_23.tar.bz2, > /etc/hotplug/input.agent > /etc/hotplug/pci.agent > /etc/hotplug/pnp.rc > /etc/hotplug/usb.agent AFAICT, there is no easy way to do hexadecimal expansion i

Re: sh compliance problems

2005-07-04 Thread DJ Lucas
DJ Lucas wrote: > hotplug-2004_09_23.tar.bz2, old Or maybe not. Sorry. Problem still exists in most recent pre. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

sh compliance problems

2005-07-04 Thread DJ Lucas
mountkernfs script succeeds, however it leaves behind messages (merged) when sh is a symlink to ash. '&>' does not redirect. Suggest '2>&1>'. Also, I'm not sure what version of hotplug right this second, but the math early on in the following files is also broken with ash symlinked to /bin/sh.