cp foo{,.bak} not always supported

[Matt Darcy]

Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 06:19:03PM +0200, Gilles Espinasse wrote:
>   
>> This was just to inform.
>> You could require what you desire.
>>
>> For me, less requirement is better so we will adapt our scripts.
>> I do not imagine I could make Ubuntu change something just to let IPCop
>> compile ;-)
>>
>> Gilles
>>
>>     
>  Hi Gilles,
>
>  I've already sent a follow-up to my terse original reply -
> unfortunately, my mail seems to have been a bit delayed this
> afternoon.  Again, thanks for your report.
>
>  And no, I doubt any of us have any leverage on the weird things
> that any of the distros do - that's one of the reasons for choosing
> to build our own.
>
>   
> ĸen
>   

The use of dash in Ubuntu is an issue for many things not just LFS. 
Ubuntu it's self it having problems making simple things like it's init 
scripts %100 dash due to shell limitations.

Ubuntu does however have bash available.

Matt