Re: Can't switch to DASH

[Freeman <evenso@worldwidehtml.com>]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:06:06PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> If  this is a repeat I apologize for the noise.
> 
> 
> With this mornings upgrade to testing there was a new
> version of DASH.
> I've been using BASH..and tried to switch.
> 
> 
> frank@squeeze:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash
> dpkg-divert: mismatch on package
>   when removing `diversion of /bin/sh by dash'
>   found `diversion of /bin/sh to /bin/sh.distrib by bash'
> 
> Is this a bug or am I missing something?
> 

I don't know about the diversion. I use dash 0.5.5.1-3 on squeeze.

 freeman@Europa:~$ ls -al /bin/*sh*
 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 811156 Apr 10 05:03 /bin/bash
 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  84144 Sep 16  2009 /bin/dash
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4 Apr 23 10:28 /bin/rbash -> bash
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4 Jan 21 04:06 /bin/sh -> dash
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4 Apr 23 10:28 /bin/sh.distrib -> bash

On upgrade apt-lisbugs warned of bug #582952, regarding LINENO and failure
of associated packages to build from source. So I aborted.

But yours sounds more related to #540512 or #546428

Tyhere are a number of grave and serious bugs on the latest dash.

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Kind Regards,
Freeman

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