Help me triage

[Keith Roberts]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Peter Robinson wrote:

> To: Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>,
>     For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>     <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> From: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Help me triage
> 
>>>>> # Is there a general policy around using perl in pre/post ?
>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462996
>>>>
>>>> There is no such policy.
>>>
>>> I wish there was a policy for not using perl in pre/post scripts. The
>>> number of packages that use perl in a single line of the spec file and
>>> don't require it as a general dependency hence pulling in all of perl
>>> for nothing.
>>
>> Not been following this topic that closely. Are you referring to using perl
>> for pre/post RPM package installation?
>
> Yes. As per the RHBZ bug that's mentioned (and just been closed
> because the perl script has been replaced with a sed script).
>
> Peter

Would it be practical to use a PHP CLI script for pre/post 
RPM installation - not in this particular case, but in 
general? I find that bash scripts are a bit cryptic, and 
lack the power that PHP CLI scripts can offer. I have 
written backup scripts using PHP CLI mode scripts, and then 
called bash O/S shell programs that are not natively 
suppoerted by PHP. This gives me all the power of bash shell 
scripting, and all the added functionality and ease of use 
of PHP syntax :)

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts