Re: Question about pdksh

[Dale Miller <dale@csd.uwo.ca>]

> somebody ha asked me why pdksh is located in /bin instead of
> /bin/sh. He referred to the FSSTND. Shall I package pdksh so that it
> only provides /usr/bin/ksh or shall it provide both /usr/bin/ksh _and_
> /bin/ksh?
> 
I tried to install the latest version of your package with the hard
link and get the following result because my / and /usr partitions
are mounted from seperate partitions of my drive. The error is:

bash# dpkg --install pdksh-5.2.3-3.i386.deb 
(Reading database ... 36130 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace pdksh (using pdksh-5.2.3-3.i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement pdksh ...
dpkg: error processing pdksh-5.2.3-3.i386.deb (--install):
 error creating hard link `bin/ksh': Cross-device link
Errors were encountered while processing:
 pdksh-5.2.3-3.i386.deb

Would a softlink instead of a hard link solve this problem?

Thanks

Dale Miller