363697 – openrc should force use bash on Gentoo/FBSD

Bug 363697 - openrc should force use bash on Gentoo/FBSD

Summary: openrc should force use bash on Gentoo/FBSD

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo/Alt
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	FreeBSD (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All FreeBSD

Importance:	Normal major (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo/BSD Team

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Reported:	2011-04-15 12:15 UTC by Yuta SATOH
Modified:	2011-04-15 12:23 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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patch for openrc-0.8.1.ebuild (openrc-0.8.1.ebuild.patch,381 bytes, patch) 2011-04-15 12:21 UTC, Yuta SATOH	Details \| Diff
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Description Yuta SATOH 2011-04-15 12:15:04 UTC

Some init scripts are written on the assumption that the shell is bash.
However, /bin/sh is not a symbolic link of bash but Bourne Shell on Gentoo/FBSD.

As a result, the init script doesn't operate normally. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. /etc/init.d/mysql start
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Actual Results:  
/etc/init.d/mysql: 9: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
 * ERROR: mysql failed to start

Comment 1 Yuta SATOH 2011-04-15 12:21:36 UTC

Created attachment 270055 [details, diff]
patch for openrc-0.8.1.ebuild

This patch is not good.
However, this problem is compulsorily evaded.

Comment 2 Patrick Lauer gentoo-dev

2011-04-15 12:22:40 UTC

No, these init scripts should be fixed. OpenRC assumes Posix SH only.

As far as I know only mysql has bashism left, and those are very hard / impossible to fix without breaking some configurations. So it has been broken for quite a while and no one knows how to fix it.