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Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 21:49:40 +0200
From: "Phil Blundell" <pb@pbcl.net>
To: Gregor Zatko <gzatko@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] update-alternatives: introduce new package as a opkg-utils spin-off
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On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 09:43:45PM +0200, Gregor Zatko wrote:
> - if you take a look at 
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/opkg-utils/tree/update-alternatives
> you'll simply see it's a shellscript; if we wanted to have it without
> bash we'd need a C++
> implementation, am I right?

No, I think the point is that the shell script only needs /bin/sh.  If it
required bash specifically then it would have #!/bin/bash at the top.

But, isn't rpmdeps supposed to sort that out automatically in any case?

p.