Re: potato -> woody upgrade not smooth...
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:10:40PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 08:53:35AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
>
> > Steven Hanley wrote:
> > > bunch of redhat boxes logged in as root. His only experience ever with rm
> > > was the redhat rm -i
> > >
> > Does Debian not sin also in this respect? I notice on my home system (Potato
> > and Woody mixture), I have in root's .bashrc:
> >
> > # User specific aliases and functions
> >
> > alias rm='rm -i' alias cp='cp -i' alias mv='mv -i'
> >
> >
> > I'm pretty sure *I* didn't put those aliases in there. Don't know what did.
>
> I don't know whether they were there at one time, but it doesn't look like they
> are anymore. Root's dotfiles are copied in from /usr/share/base-files by the
> base-files package, and as of at least version 2.2.10 (potato), those aliases
> are not present. I don't see any entries in the changelog about removing any
> aliases.
>
> I don't have any systems older than potato to check; I suppose you could
> download and unpack older .debs if you wanted to find out.
>
I'm running woody on a system for which I installed potato base and
upgraded to woody on Dec. 31, 2000. It has those aliases and they also
exist in /usr/share/base-files/dot.bashrc, which is dated Sep. 6, 1998.
apt-cache show base-files indicates that the version is 2.2.9 (Potato
currently has 2.2.0, not 2.2.10, which is probably the unstable
version). 2.2.10 also has the aliases in dot.bashrc. I suspect that
dot.bashrc hasn't changed in quite a while.
Bob
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