Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed (solved?)

[Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com>]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:15:05AM -0800, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:

> I believe the issue is that /bin/sh is expected to be a bourne shell, or at 
> least closely compatible.  zsh, "most closely resembles ksh but includes many 
> enhancements."  ksh has "command language [that is ] is a superset of the 
> sh(1) shell language."  While this means, in theory, ksh should do everything 
> sh would do, there might be expected behaviors that zsh (which "resembles" 
> ksh) does not live up to.

Shouldn't apt-get then refuse to run under zsh, or itself spawn /bin/sh and
run scripts under that instead of the default shell?
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