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bash postinstall (Was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.0-11)


On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Eric Blake wrote:

> [snip]
> NOTICE:
> =======
> There is a known inherent limitation in the current version of
> setup.exe; hopefully it will be fixed before the next version is
> released.  The problem is that there is no clean way to upgrade /bin/sh,
> because setup.exe tries to run the bash postinstall script with the
> wrong shell. For now, if you want /bin/sh and /bin/bash to be the same
> version, you will manually need to open any shell except /bin/sh, and
> run 'cp /bin/bash /bin/sh'.

Heh, I just remembered that setup.exe can also run postinstall batch
files.  Sure, they should be used sparingly, but this seems like a perfect
use for one.
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