Re: nfs-utils does NOT rdepend on bash

[Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>]

On 04/22/2014 08:02 AM, ChenQi wrote:
> 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.

I'll take a look, shouldn't be hard. And it is not required for the server 
anyway, so if the bashism can't be easily removed, I think start-statd should 
be moved into another package so that only that part will draw in the bash 
dependency.

I'll try to create separate patches, one "de-bash" patch, and one to fix and 
simplify the server startup script.



>> 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.
>>
>>
>



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