Debian Bug report logs - #10699
bash: installing bash wipes out existing /bin/sh link

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@greathan.apana.org.au>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: bash: installing bash wipes out existing /bin/sh link

Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 19:48:54 +1000

Package: bash
Version: 2.0-3

If /bin/sh was linked to say /bin/ash, installing bash will overwrite it.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux greathan 2.0.29 #1 Wed Apr 9 08:02:37 EST 1997 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages bash depends on:
libc5	Version: 5.4.23-4
ldso	Version: 1.9.2-3 (Provides Virtual Package libdl1)
libreadline2	Version: 2.1-2
ncurses3.0	Version: 1.9.9e-1

Message #10 received at 10699@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>

To: Herbert Xu <herbert@greathan.apana.org.au>, 10699@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#10699: bash: installing bash wipes out existing /bin/sh link

Date: 15 Aug 1997 10:24:45 -0500

Herbert Xu <herbert@greathan.apana.org.au> writes:

> If /bin/sh was linked to say /bin/ash, installing bash will overwrite it.

So do you think we need to use alternatives?  Or just make the symlink
in the postinst?  Is ash POSIX compliant?


Guy

Message #15 received at 10699@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl

To: 10699@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#10699: bash: installing bash wipes out existing /bin/sh link

Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 14:14:21 +0200

On Aug 15, Guy Maor wrote
> Herbert Xu <herbert@greathan.apana.org.au> writes:
> 
> > If /bin/sh was linked to say /bin/ash, installing bash will overwrite it.
> 
> So do you think we need to use alternatives?  Or just make the symlink in
> the postinst?  Is ash POSIX compliant?

All praise the mailing list archives...

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@greathan.apana.org.au> 
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:15:06 +1000 
Subject: Re: /bin/sh != /bin/bash 
CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org 
References: <19970723175249.49720@sidney> <87zprd74e9.fsf@tiamat.datasync.com> 

[...]
:I ported the NetBSD-current of 19970715 as our current ash.  AFAIK their
:goal is POSIX compliance and the only problem that I'm aware of currently
:is with "trap" understanding symbolic signal names which shouldn't be hard
:to fix.

HTH,
Ray
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Message #20 received at 10699@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>

To: 10699@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: installing bash wipes out existing /bin/sh link

Date: 25 Feb 1998 01:38:27 -0800

After 2.0 is released, I will make /bin/sh an alternative that bash
and ash can provide.  I don't want to do it before then because it
might be too unsettling.


Guy

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From: Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>

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Subject: closing already fixed bash bugs

Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:53:43 +0100 (MET)

These bugs are fixed in bash-2.03-1 and up.

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