On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 01:58:07PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> One benefit always moving it has, is that it tests all code paths on upgrade
> (including the "add a /bin/sh symlink") which makes it more likely to catch
> any bugs while we're still working on potato.
>
> I don't see how this makes
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:09:14PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 02:10:45AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > (What is the problem with --rename, btw? I'm curious, and dpkg-divert is
> > horribly underdocumented)
> >From dpkg-divert --help:
> --rename causes dpkg-divert to actua
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 02:10:45AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> (What is the problem with --rename, btw? I'm curious, and dpkg-divert is
> horribly underdocumented)
>From dpkg-divert --help:
--rename causes dpkg-divert to actually move the file aside (or back).
There's no reason to remove the /
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 11:28:31AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 11:55:54PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > *shrug* Name a case where it fails.
> You don't remember the problems when libreadline broke?
Yes, I do. That's not related to bash, it's related to having bash
implici
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:44:25AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 12:30:04PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > Just having /bin/sh included in the .deb is Good Enough -- diversions
> > > work as designed.
> > Good Enough is not good enough (TM).
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 11:55
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 10:07:03AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:44:25AM -0400, Raul Miller was heard to say:
> > A wonderfuly horrible hack has occurred to me, by the way: A cron job
> > which runs every minute: /bin/sh -c exit || /sbin/rebuild-bin-sh
>
> Hmm. Ther
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:44:25AM -0400, Raul Miller was heard to say:
> A wonderfuly horrible hack has occurred to me, by the way: A cron job
> which runs every minute: /bin/sh -c exit || /sbin/rebuild-bin-sh
Hmm. There's a bit of a problem here: aren't cronjobs executed
with /bin/sh? :)
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 09:44:25AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 12:30:04PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Just having /bin/sh included in the .deb is Good Enough -- diversions
> > work as designed.
> Good Enough is not good enough (TM).
*shrug* Name a case where it fails.
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:36:01AM -0400, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> > > yea...I just did an update today and something decided to remove
> > > /bin/sh during the upgrade...and didn't put it back before it
> > > was needed... so if something hoses for you just recreate it by
> > > linking it to like
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 03:00:51PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:36:01AM -0400, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> > yea...I just did an update today and something decided to remove /bin/sh
> > during the upgrade...and didn't put it back before it was needed...
> > so if some
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 03:00:51PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> If somebody could come up with a better method of handling this it would be
> most welcome.
I'd suggest releasing a bash (which doesn't use #!/bin/sh scripts for
install/remove) that, in postinst, divert's bash's /bin/sh. Leave
At 15:00 +0200 1999-10-01, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
I am the person responsible for this problem. In fact the problem was that
people did not want the bash package to override their /bin/sh link so
it had to be removed from the package.
Those people need to learn to use diversions (and yes, you ca
Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If somebody could come up with a better method of handling this it would be
> most welcome.
Don't do it (muck around with /bin/sh links). Guy made a comment in
the bug report about this and AFAIK didn't do it yet in case of
breakages like this.
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On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:36:01AM -0400, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> yea...I just did an update today and something decided to remove /bin/sh
> during the upgrade...and didn't put it back before it was needed...
> so if something hoses for you just recreate it by linking it to like
> bash...
I am t
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