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From: ChenQi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
To: <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: nfs-utils does NOT rdepend on bash
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:02:34 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <535605FA.6080905@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5352B5E0.3080509@topic.nl>

On 04/20/2014 01:44 AM, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> To my surprise, a megabyte sized package "bash" was installed on 
> target when I installed nfs-utils to start the NFS server.
>
> Commit 664ae3dc52fd7fc8c6f64e6cf5e70f97dedd332d claims the package 
> needs bash.
>
> It's simply not true. It does not require bash at all, it runs just 
> fine with busybox's ash shell for example.
>

How about the start-statd script?
It begins with '#!/bin/bash -p'.
If you de-bash it, I think we can remove the dependency.

//Chen Qi

> I don't understand the reasoning behind that commit. There's nothing 
> in nfs-utils that really needs bash, it runs fine without it.
>
>
>
> Also, there is an error in the startup script, I can submit a patch 
> for that if you like. The script is needlessly complex too.
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-22  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-19 17:44 nfs-utils does NOT rdepend on bash Mike Looijmans
2014-04-22  6:02 ` ChenQi [this message]
2014-04-22  6:10   ` Mike Looijmans

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