Upgrade from Dapper to Edgy
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Sun Feb 18 14:56:18 UTC 2007
Rick Greep wrote:
> Also from what I have read
> in the bug comments a number of vendors have also grown to rely on
> bashisms. Moving to
> dash as the default shell would break those scripts. It sounds like I
> will be a lot happier if I keep the "sh -> bash" symlink in place.
Perhaps, but it's hardly Ubuntu's fault if vendors are shipping scripts with
#! /bin/sh
when they need bash.
I'm surprised to find this change to a dash default, since absolutely
nothing has broken on my system.
I'm more surpised to find that sh is NOT controlled via the alternatives
system! _That_ is a bug.
--
derek
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