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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 02:16:49 -0400
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From: "Daniel F. Dickinson" <dfdpublic@wildtechgarden.ca>
Subject: Fixing shell script libraries like /lib/libalpine.sh
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Hello,

I've noticed some issues with the Alpine shell script libraries (one
example below)[1]

I'm new to Alpine but not to Linux, *BSD, or (way back) Ultrix, and have
not (yet) dug into the Alpine code base and infrastructure. (Although I
have my 'notes-to-self' documentation[2] that I intend (RSN...) to
integrate into the Wiki and have published on my website).

My questions with respect to the issues mentioned are:

1. Do you prefer the GitLab merge request interface or the mailing list
for patches?[3]

2. If you are not already using tools like shellcheck / shellfmt and or
shell unit tests in your CI, do you have objections to such being added?

I'm hoping to spend some time fixing this type of issue as they result
in annoying hiccups when trying to automate setup-alpine, and I'd like
that to work well.

A final note: I've got some cloud-init image creation using Packer that
I soon intend to push to public repository, along with Terraform usage
of the same; is there interest in those here? I almost forgot; what is
the status the work on the 'tiny' cloud-init substitute or other
alternatives in Alpine?

Regards,

Daniel


[1]:

# test the first argument against the remaining ones, return success on
a match
isin() {
    local _a=$1 _b
    shift
    for _b; do
        [ "$_a" = "$_b" ] && return 0
    done
    return 1
}

_b is never assigned a value. This is why automating ntp setup fails
(specifically the following code in /sbin/setup-ntp) will never skip the
'ask':

while [ $# -eq 0 ] && ! isin "$resp" busybox openntpd chrony none abort; do
    ask "Which NTP client to run? ('busybox', 'openntpd', 'chrony' or
'none')" chrony
done

[2]: https://wildtechgarden.ca/deploy-admin/server-alpine-linux-docs4web/

[3]: I've been off in frontend-land for a while and am somewhat out of
sync with current systems development preferences.

Speaking of which, I don't see at
https://useplaintext.email/#thunderbird how to limit the line length to
72 characters as requested (or is this unnecessary due to things
Thunderbird does in background when sending plaintext?).

I unfortunately need features of Thunderbird that aren't available in
what I preferred in the days before MS 365 and Gmail were what most of
the folks I needed to communicate with dependent on, which was Claws Mail.

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