Hi, I am the submitter of the original dash upgrade bug.
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 09:27:29PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > diff --git a/en/issues.dbk b/en/issues.dbk > index 9498399..83f1408 100644 > --- a/en/issues.dbk > +++ b/en/issues.dbk > @@ -244,6 +244,34 @@ works for <literal>root</literal>. > </para> > </section> > > +<section id="shell-diversions"> > + <title>Potential issues with diversions of /bin/sh</title> > + <para> > + If you have previously added a local diversion for > <literal>/bin/sh</literal>, > + or modified the <literal>/bin/sh</literal> symlink to point to somewhere > + other than <literal>/bin/bash</literal>, then you may encounter problems > + when upgrading the <systemitem role="package">dash</systemitem> or > + <systemitem role="package">bash</systemitem> packages. > + Note that this includes changes made by allowing other packages (for > example > + <systemitem role="package">mksh</systemitem>) to become the default > system > + shell by taking over <literal>/bin/sh</literal>. > + </para> > + <para> > + If you encounter any such issues, please remove the local diversion and > + ensure that the symlinks for both <literal>/bin/sh</literal> and its > + manual page point to the files provided by the <systemitem > role="package"> > + bash</systemitem> package and then > + <command>dpkg-reconfigure --force dash</command>. > + </para> > + <programlisting> > + dpkg-divert --remove /bin/sh > + dpkg-divert --remove /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz > + > + ln -sf bash /bin/sh > + ln -sf bash.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz > + </programlisting> > +</section> > + > </section> > > <section id="upgrade-to-2.6" condition="fixme"> I verified that the steps you proposed solved the issue on my system. Thank you very much for finally (after one and a half year) addressing the issue. Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
