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| author |   Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2015-10-21 18:47:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2015-11-08 20:29:19 +0100 |
| commit | 01346659dfaf4057107dacc38bbeb7e7b0fc5e4f (patch) | |
| tree | 7b0ce0dcb1d235a08bf912827214e3f4e1b1481b | |
| parent | EAPI 6: Bash version is 4.2. (diff) | |
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Recommend setting the bash compatibility level.
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diff --git a/ebuild-format.tex b/ebuild-format.tex index 61e3437..db6d7a1 100644 --- a/ebuild-format.tex +++ b/ebuild-format.tex @@ -3,7 +3,10 @@ \featurelabel{bash-version} The ebuild file format is in its basic form a subset of the format of a bash script. The interpreter is assumed to be GNU bash, version as listed in -table~\ref{tab:bash-version}, or any later version. +table~\ref{tab:bash-version}, or any later version. If possible, the package manager should set +the shell's compatibility level to the exact version specified. It must ensure that any such +compatibility settings (e.g. the \t{BASH\_COMPAT} variable) are not exported to external programs. + The file encoding must be UTF-8 with Unix-style newlines. When sourced, the ebuild must define certain variables and functions (see sections~\ref{sec:ebuild-vars} and~\ref{sec:ebuild-functions} for specific information), and must not call any external programs, write anything to standard |