F20 System Wide Change: Change Packaging Guidelines to discourage requires into /bin and /sbin

[Les Howell]

On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 14:31 -0600, Eric Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
> > /bin/sh is *not* a bash script
> > /bin/sh is *whatever* your default shell would be
> 
> I certainly hope not.  I've worked on plenty of Unix machines where
> the default shell was csh or tcsh, but if /bin/sh had been csh or a
> link to it, all hell would have broken loose.
> 
> /bin/sh had bloody well better be something that is compatible with
> the Bourne shell.
> 
> Eric

On F17, and on the last solaris I used (5 years ago), /bin/sh was a link
and has been one for many years in Unix land.  For example on my system
right now:

ls -al /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 4 Mar 18 11:28 /bin/sh -> bash