Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:58:02AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 06:04:13PM +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > This is a follow up to my previous thread, with a slightly different proposal.
> >
> > What actually needs to be done is:
> > * Make dash essential, make it divert the current /bin/sh symlink by default,
> > make another essential package depend on dash. Prompt the user before
> > diverting on interactive upgrades.
>
> Is there a reason why we're not using the alternatives system for
> this and let both bash and dash set that up, and then have dash's
> priority lower than bash?
Because the alternatives system can leave dangling symlinks in various
cases. And guess what happens when /bin/sh is a dangling symlink.
Mike
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