[Mageia-dev] shorewall, please review the package

Kamil Rytarowski n54 at gmx.com
Fri Dec 21 09:41:14 CET 2012


On 21.12.2012 08:54, Dick Gevers wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:31:34 +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote about
> [Mageia-dev] shorewall, please review the package:
>
>> - removed hard dependency on dash
> Why?
>
> >From man shorewall.conf:
> SHOREWALL_SHELL=[pathname]    This option is used to specify the shell
> program to be used to run the Shorewall compiler and to interpret the
> compiled script. If not specified or specified as a null value, /bin/sh is
> assumed. Using a light-weight shell such as ash or dash can significantly
> improve performance.
>
> Cheers,
> =Dick Gevers=
>
As it's pointed out, it's task for administrators not packagers. There 
is just need to symlink /usr/bin/sh to the right shell interpreter.


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