Re: potato -> woody upgrade not smooth...
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:32:20PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > 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.
I mistyped the version number; I meant 2.2.0. In both 2.2.0 and 2.2.10, the
aliases are in comments, not executed.
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- mdz
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