On 04/06/2011 01:55 AM, Carsten Hey wrote: > * Luk Claes [2011-04-05 23:11 +0200]: >> On 04/05/2011 11:05 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >>> Carsten Hey wrote: >>>> * Steve Langasek [2011-04-04 19:37 -0700]: >>>>> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 02:00:36AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote:
> Guaranteeing that /bin/sh exists and is functional during debootstrap, > even before any maintainer script has been run, could be archived if > every system shell would provide /bin/sh pointing to itself. To avoid > file conflicts, all but the one whose preinst is run first (finding > a clever way to detect this shouldn't be that hard) could divert their > /bin/sh to /bin/sh.$SHELL. When update-shell (or whatever it's name > would be) finally takes over managing /bin/sh, it could divert the > remaining /bin/sh away and replace it with a symlink not known to the > packaging system. That unfortunately does not work as diversions are only meant to be used when 2 packages provide the same file. One of the problems being what to do when you remove one of the shells (for instance the one providing /bin/sh)... Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d9bf825.4090...@debian.org
