[Linux-ha-dev] Re: cronjobs v1.2 rc1 OCF resource agent now available

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:01, Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:00:52AM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
>> On 2008-07-15T15:18:26, Dejan Muhamedagic <dejanmm at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>
>> > There's a tool in Debian which finds bashisms:
>> >
>> > checkbashisms(1)
>> >
>> > It should find most of bash features. Otherwise, I don't know any
>> > conversion guides. You should be able to find shell references on
>> > Internet. If in doubt, please ask on the list.
>>
>> We pull in XML libraries, python, perl, tls, not to mention that the
>> cluster will usually be hosting an actual application or several, but
>> then try to not require bash - a package which is smaller than even the
>> heartbeat package.
>
> The bash shell is also around ten times bigger and more complex
> then a POSIX compatible shell. That should also be taken into
> account.

however given that we already require python, e2fsprogs, libxml2,
gnutls, libxslt, glade, etc etc, the difference is a comparative drop
in the ocean