Re: How do I make /bin/sh=sh

[ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)]

> > Actually, I'm playing with a change to bash, soon to be bash-3.0-12,
> > where the postinstall script will leave /bin/sh alone if its timestamp
> > is newer than /bin/bash.  
> 
> For one release. What happens after the next upgrade to bash?

My plan for bash-3.0-12 and beyond is to only upgrade /bin/sh to the
newest bash version if /bin/sh has an older timestamp than /bin/bash,
and is not ksh or zsh.  So, using 'touch -d "+2 years" /bin/sh.exe'
would exempt /bin/sh from updates for the next two years, no matter
how often bash upgrades occur in the meantime, and no matter if
/bin/sh is ash because you wanted it that way (at the expense of
having a file modified 2 years in the future!  Isn't time travel fun? :)

--
Eric Blake



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