Re: /bin/sh != /bin/bash ? [was Re: zsh vs bash]

[carlos@fisica.ufpr.br]

Carey Evans (c.evans@clear.net.nz) wrote on 14 March 1997 13:32:
 >Here (with gzip 1.2.4-14) the postinst script is for /bin/sh.
 >I suspect the problem is the line in /etc/zshenv:
 >
 >    PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:."
 >
 >which means that every time zsh is used, /usr/sbin gets removed from
 >the PATH, which is where install-info (a perl script used by the
 >postinst) is located.

 >I've commented out this line and put it into /etc/zlogin instead,
 >which corresponds with setting PATH for bash in /etc/profile.  Maybe I
 >should file a bug report on zsh for this?

If the zsh package has this line it's obviously a bug. Here I install
it manually because I upgrade more often than the maintainer, and I
don't have this line. Anyway, this isn't the problem; it happens in a
read or something.