Hi Oliver, Am 13.02.2014 um 15:14 schrieb Oliver Kiddle <[email protected]>: >> I now made tclsh8.5 now a slave link in alternatives. However, the current >> alternatives implementation is broken and cannot set back to 32 bit without >> bailing out and only setting tclsh8.5 correctly. Going back to RedHat >> alternatives >> is a thing being on my todo list for a long time, maybe this is incentive >> enough >> to fix it. New packages for tcl are available btw., please try. > > I get the following when trying to set it to 32-bit. Is this what you > mean about the current alternatives being broken? > > # /opt/csw/sbin/alternatives --config tclsh > Chooser for software 'tclsh' > 640 /opt/csw/bin/tclsh /opt/csw/bin/sparcv9/tclsh > 320 /opt/csw/bin/tclsh /opt/csw/bin/sparcv8plus/tclsh > Input the priority number for your desired choice, or 0 to quit > 320 > ERROR: set_link needs 3 arguments > /opt/csw/sbin/alternatives[54]: shift: bad number
Yes, exactly. Same for alternatives —select tclsh /opt/csw/bin/sparcv8plus/tclsh The current implementation is a NFS-shared-/opt/csw-friendly reimplementation in ksh of the redhat alternatives, but lacking the slave-group syntax. Maybe you as shell-superguru can quickly fix it? Best regards — Dago -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896
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