Re: /bin/sh and lua; was: Re: common location of spec files in upstream sources

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Adam Williamson <adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; said:
>  FWIW, ISTR being told at some point that it's a good idea to
> write
>  scriptlets in lua because RPM should *always* be able to run lua
>  scriptlets, whereas at least in theory a scriptlet written in shell
>  script could be hit before /bin/sh is installed and thus fail to
>  run... 
I don't think that's true - I think an RPM with a /bin/sh scriptlet will
get a dependency on /bin/sh, so it shouldn't be installed before
/bin/sh.

The only things that should have an issue there are things that are
dependencies _of_ the package providing /bin/sh, although there is a
circular dependency there, so I'm not sure how that works today.

$ rpm -qRf /bin/sh
...
filesystem >= 3
...

$ rpm -qR filesystem
/bin/sh
...

-- 
Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net&gt;