Re: Dash as default shell

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On 10/02/2014 03:07 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
Changing the default /bin/sh is going to break the world.

[citation needed]

Just look for brace expansion in spec files. It's use is *extremely* common. And many of the failures are silent, e.g. arguments to “rm -f”.

We could patch rpmbuild to run them using bash instead, but this example makes it very doubtful to me that Ubuntu and Debian have already done all the hard work for us.

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