[install-discuss] using bash for installation scripts

[mary ding]

William and Rene:

This might be a problem for live upgrade as well.  For Solaris Express, 
we need to support live upgrade from S9 and S10 releases.  If the user 
decide not to install SUNWbash in S9 and S10, when you run live upgrade, 
the script will not work.



William Pursell wrote:
> On 8/4/07, Rene Cunningham <rene at terdmonk.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Im designing a package that uses a bash postinstall script to handle various tasks.
>>
>> When installing this script, pkgadd complains of the syntax of the bash script.
> 
> Why do you want to use bash? It is a separate package, will not work
> in miniroot and zone envs and is unlike ksh/ksh93 not supported by
> Sun. You'd better wait for the ksh93 effort and file a Rfe to make
> ksh/ksh93 the default shell for package scripts.
> 
> William