Package: bash
Version: 3.2-4
Severity: minor
It is nice if users can put a ~/.dircolors file in their home directory
and have it just work.
The attached patch to /etc/skel/.bashrc does exactly that, and is based
on code recently added to the coreutils manual:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-07/msg00136.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 4.0.5 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.6+20080830-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
Versions of packages bash recommends:
ii bash-completion 20080705 programmable completion for the ba
Versions of packages bash suggests:
pn bash-doc <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
--- /etc/skel/.bashrc 2008-05-12 20:02:41.000000000 +0100
+++ bashrc 2008-11-19 12:18:47.000000000 +0000
@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@
# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
+ debian_dircolors=.dircolors
+ test -r $debian_dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b $debian_dircolors)" ||
eval "$(dircolors -b)"
eval "`dircolors -b`"
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
#alias dir='dir --color=auto'
