[yocto] Is it not necessary to sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash with Poky 1.2 on Ubuntu 12.04

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Wed May 2 08:50:47 PDT 2012


On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 08:18 -0700, Osier-mixon, Jeffrey wrote:
> Good catch. I'm still installing 12.04 and can't check at the moment,
> but there is an easy way to tell:
> 
> file /bin/sh
> 
> If it points to bash you should be fine, if it points to dash then
> you'll need to reconfigure. Please let me know the results and I'll
> make sure it gets documented either way.

Just to be very clear on this, you do not need to use bash as /bin/sh
with this release, dash should work fine. The instruction was removed
from the documentation since it is no longer necessary.

Cheers,

Richard




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