Re: ALERT: XFree86 4.1.0-3 maintainer scripts hosed; please wait for 4.1.0-4
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 08:23:55PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote:
| Branden Robinson wrote:
|
| > * if your /bin/sh is ash, you will likely have this problem
|
| Why would this be the case? I thought all Debian systems (well, I don't
| know about pre-Potato versions) had /bin/sh as a symlink pointing to bash.
| Wouldn't it sort of be asking for problems to have a non-standard /bin/sh?
A non-standard /bin/sh would be one that isn't POSIX conformant.
Watch what happens if I try and remove ash :
# apt-get remove ash
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
ash initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.8-386
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 22.7MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
#
Not a good thing, I still want a kernel ;-).
-D
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