Re: Small observation [FYI]

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Peter Iannarelli wrote:

> Hello all:
>
> I recently attempted to upgrade from 2.1 to potato and observed the
> following:
>
> When using deselect for upgrade purposes the symbolic link between
> /bin/bash and /bin/sh was removed following the upgrade of bash.
>
> Following the loss of this sym-link all upgrade attempts failed with
> the error
>
> dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: No such
> file or directory

Indeed.  I recommend the following upgrade procedure:

   * edit /etc/apt/sources.list changing stable to potato or unstable,
     and changing non-us.debian.org "stable non-US" to "potato/non-US
     main contrib non-free".
   * apt-get update
   * apt-get install apt
   * apt-get install bash
   * dselect

This is what I have been using to upgrade new machines.  Does it make
sense?  Any of it unnecessary?

But yes, this should probably be fixed.

Thanks,

-Adam P.