[Answered] Question regarding the default system shell

2009-07-26 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Hi Stefano, you must have missed my followup to Manoj. On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 18:35 +0200, you wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 02:04:51PM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > > > My question is: will it ever happen that I may safely leave > > > > /bin/sh -> dash > > > Been there. Done that. Had

Re: Question regarding the default system shell

2009-07-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 02:04:51PM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > > My question is: will it ever happen that I may safely leave > > > /bin/sh -> dash > > Been there. Done that. Had no problems. Been there too. Done that too. Had no problems as well. > I'm not sure about it because there wer

[Answered] Question regarding the default system shell

2009-07-26 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 09:58 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > > > My question is: will it ever happen that I may safely leave > > /bin/sh -> dash > > while running an upgrade without fearing a maintainer script > > fails? > > I think th

Re: Question regarding the default system shell

2009-07-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Jul 26 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > My question is: will it ever happen that I may safely leave > /bin/sh -> dash > while running an upgrade without fearing a maintainer script > fails? I think that any script failure when using dash or bash as /bin/sh would represent a sig

Re: Question regarding the default system shell

2009-07-26 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 14:49 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > su, 2009-07-26 kello 13:36 +0200, Siggy Brentrup kirjoitti: > > My question is: will it ever happen that I may safely leave > > /bin/sh -> dash > > while running an upgrade without fearing a maintainer script > > fails? > > Been ther

Re: Question regarding the default system shell

2009-07-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2009-07-26 kello 13:36 +0200, Siggy Brentrup kirjoitti: > My question is: will it ever happen that I may safely leave > /bin/sh -> dash > while running an upgrade without fearing a maintainer script > fails? Been there. Done that. Had no problems. Also, Ubuntu, which mainly uses Debian pa

Question regarding the default system shell

2009-07-26 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Hi list, apologies again for the nonsense I uttered in another thread on this issue. I've been off list for more than 5 years now and I remember the discussion on changing the default system shell to be recurring every now and then in '03-'04. Arguments were essentially the same as nowadays mean