Giacomo Catenazzi <c...@debian.org> writes: > Raphael Geissert wrote: >> Hello everybody, >> >> This is a follow up to my previous thread, with a slightly different >> proposal. >> >> What actually needs to be done is: >> * Make dash essential, make it divert the current /bin/sh symlink by >> default, make another essential package depend on dash. Prompt the >> user before diverting on interactive upgrades. > > One additional question: > how can we setup dependencies, so that "nis + mounted /usr/" needs > explicitly dash as /bin/sh? > [creating ugly dash-as-sh, bash-as-sh packages, who conflict > each other and setup the symlink?] > > Or we need to set explicitly use #!/bin/dash in umountall? > [not so flexible solution, but IMHO enough good]
If it needs dash then yes, set #!/bin/dash and Pre-Depend on dash. But in this case that really needs to be fixed to work with any posix shell. > I think we should address this, because was one of the rationale > for the switch. > > In long term we need to find a solution how to handle unsupported > configuration in a flexible way (which will solve also lilo case: it > works only with limited kernels and config) > > ciao > cate MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org