On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 05:13:55AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> So Guy, would you be willing to apply this patch? Unfortunately, I don't
> seem to be able to compile bash properly (the libc5 stuff dies horrible
> deaths if I don't comment it out), so I can't offer to make an NMU, but
> hopefully s
severity 34717 wishlist
thanks
Severity rationale: the current behaviour is bug free, and works. Having
/bin/sh point to ash is not a release critical feature. A workaround exists:
use:
# dpkg-divert --rename --add /bin/sh
# ln -sf ash /bin/sh
to get the desired behaviour without c
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 02:10:01PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Note that the first maintainer script after "remove /bin/sh" is the
> postinst -- adding the link in the preinst doesn't do us any good on
> upgrades.
Ok. I stand corrected. How's this for a nasty hack: what if the preinst
diverts /b
Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 12:22:37PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
> > Frankly, I think this whole process is too risky for the benefit gained,
> > certainly too much risk for a non-maintainer upload, and that we shouldn't
> > do it with current tools.
>
> Do note that changi
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 12:22:37PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
> Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Furthermore, Essential packages are always immediately configured by Apt,
> > so we don't have an issue there either.
> That means we're dropping support for all non-APT dselect methods in
> potato. I don'
Anthony Towns wrote:
> Furthermore, Essential packages are always immediately configured by Apt,
> so we don't have an issue there either.
That means we're dropping support for all non-APT dselect methods in
potato. I don't think that's a good idea, since people will be upgrading
from slink, whic
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 06:10:20PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:28:30PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > Which is also not so logical since in the preinst bash is not yet unpacked
> > and there may be no /bin/bash ... it may be installed in the
> > preinst when the pack
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 11:28:30PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Which is also not so logical since in the preinst bash is not yet unpacked
> and there may be no /bin/bash ... it may be installed in the
> preinst when the package is upgraded ($1 = upgrade) only (in which
> case the link should al
Le Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 04:40:41PM -0400, Michael Stone écrivait:
> I'm a little concerned about creating the link in the postinst, as that
> part of the install (IIRC) can be delayed for various reasons. (And it
> would be a Bad Thing to risk losing /bin/sh for an indefinite period of
> time.) Can
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 05:13:55AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> * postinst is a /bin/bash script instead of a /bin/sh script -- this
>means it won't fail if for some reason there isn't a /bin/sh symlink
>already. If there isn't a symlink (or or an actual file) it makes
>
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