Re: pkg/36259: sysutils/xentools30 has test == portability problems

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/36259; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/36259: sysutils/xentools30 has test == portability problems
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 12:40:56 +0100

 On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:20:03PM +0000, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/36259; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost
 > Subject: Re: pkg/36259: sysutils/xentools30 has test == portability problems
 > Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 09:15:15 -0500 (CDT)
 > 
 >  On Thu, 3 May 2007, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 >  
 >  >  > Would upstream really reject such a patch?
 
 I would suggest that Robert Elz tries to find that out by submitting
 patches to the Xen maintainer. If they accept them they will be
 integrated into "pkgsrc" with the next update automatically.
 
 >  >  I can't see why they would want to fix linux-only scripts.
 >  
 >  GNU coreutils (used on Linux) version of test(1) doesn't work with that. 
 >  And some Linux distros do not use Bash by default.
 
 That's correct, Ubuntu uses "dash" which is IIUC derived from a BSD shell.
 
        Kind regards
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 Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/