Differential D10305

Update bash to 5.1.4
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Authored by Harvey on Jan 5 2021, 1:20 PM.

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JoshStrobl

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Triage Team

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R420:e48ed020e708: Update bash to 5.1.4

Summary

5.0.11 -> 5.1.4
Full changelog available here

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Run several bash scripts
Test new SRANDOM variable

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R420 bash

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master

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Harvey created this revision.Jan 5 2021, 1:20 PM

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Harvey requested review of this revision.Jan 5 2021, 1:20 PM

Just out of curiosity, why are there always multiple patches back-ported from upstream every time bash is updated. Wouldn't it be enough to just use the releases?
Sorry if this is a stupid question, was just wandering as we don't really do so with any other packages unless there are very critical bugs that need fixed.

@Jacalz, that's because how bugfix releases of bash and readline work. They don't make self-contained tarballs for minor releases - they release patchsets that need to be applied on top of major release tarball.

Change license to -or-later and add homepage

In D10305#169149, @aleksvor wrote:

@Jacalz, that's because how bugfix releases of bash and readline work. They don't make self-contained tarballs for minor releases - they release patchsets that need to be applied on top of major release tarball.

Thank you very much for the explanation. Makes a lot more sense now :)