Patch for bash

1999-08-27 Thread Anthony Towns
Hello world, Apparently we need to fix 3 and a bit more release critical bugs than we open every day from now until November to get potato out the door. I figured I'd start. Following is a patch against bash-2.02.1-1.6 that fixes the /bin/sh overwriting bug, and removes bash's predependency on it

Re: Patch for bash

1999-08-27 Thread Michael Stone
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 >

Re: Patch for bash

1999-08-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
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

Re: Patch for bash

1999-08-27 Thread Michael Stone
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