Hi, Sven Joachim wrote: > On a system with everything in /usr[1,2], i.e. /bin is a symlink to > /usr/bin, zsh fails to configure: > > ,---- > | Setting up zsh (5.0.7-3) ... > | update-alternatives: using /bin/zsh5 to provide /bin/zsh (zsh) in auto mode > | update-alternatives: error: unable to install `/usr/bin/zsh.dpkg-tmp' as > `/usr/bin/zsh': No such file or directory > | dpkg: error processing package zsh (--configure): > | subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > | Errors were encountered while processing: > | zsh > `---- > > I guess update-alternatives does not like the fact that the /bin/zsh > alternative and its slave /usr/bin/zsh are at the same place.
Reading this comment and https://bugs.debian.org/807185, I wonder if this is not something, that update-alternatives should generally fix in its --slave handling instead of each affected package individually. Cc'ing the Dpkg Developers. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
