From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mail-pf0-f195.google.com ([209.85.192.195]:33630 "EHLO mail-pf0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751153AbcDFQk7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Apr 2016 12:40:59 -0400 Received: by mail-pf0-f195.google.com with SMTP id e190so4840249pfe.0 for ; Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:40:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 09:40:55 -0700 From: Isaac Dunham To: Ruediger Meier Cc: Karel Zak , util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tests: test_md5 prints md5sum only Message-ID: <20160406164054.GA5851@newbook> References: <1459938618-20153-1-git-send-email-sweet_f_a@gmx.de> <20160406122615.foxdi772wqthsxfc@ws.net.home> <201604061433.59553.sweet_f_a@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <201604061433.59553.sweet_f_a@gmx.de> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 01:33:58PM +0100, Ruediger Meier wrote: > On Wednesday 06 April 2016, Karel Zak wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 12:30:17PM +0200, Ruediger Meier wrote: > > > We want to to use it for other tests without depending on > > > gnu md5sum and without cut or awk. > > > > It does not seem like anything critical, both patches applied to the > > next branch (will be in v2.29). Thanks. > > That's ok. These patches do not fix any existing problem yet. They are > just one minor step to remove coreutils dependency from out tests. We > would still need to fix usage of readlink, seq and truncate. Is this for the sake of something where you cannot expect *any* coreutils-equivalent to be installed? If you can't expect that, can you expect the build scripts to work? I ask because md5sum, seq, and readlink are included in every set of base utilities I'm aware of, including coreutils, busybox, toybox, and even sbase (the 'suckless' base utilities). That said, seq and md5sum are only specified in the LSB, and readlink isn't even there. Thanks, Isaac Dunham