bash rpm-requires

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Wed Aug 4 15:10:09 UTC 2004


On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 07:49:04AM -0700, Steve G wrote:

> In terms of usability, though, I think it is still usable. I would
> encourage the Red Hat team to continue this patch and refine
> it. Because of this patch, I have also written scripts that scan
> shell scripts (that admins are likely to run) for incomplete
> paths. e.g. grep instead of /bin/grep.

I think it was only really intended for scanning %post/%postun-type
scriptlets, which are generally very easy to parse.  I think at one
point there was even a hook in rpm to make use of it -- whether that
is still around but disabled, or gone altogether, I don't know.

Tim.
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