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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:45:03 -0800 (PST)
From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org>
To: David Rayner <david AT rayninfo DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.2.0-1
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, David Rayner wrote:

> Peter,

Greetings David,

> There is a posting in Gmane which explains that it's a packaging error
> >Sounds like a packaging bug.

Well, I am the Cygwin maintainer for zsh, and there are two issues:

The original issue was with the executable /usr/bin/zsh being a link to
the real exe (eg: zsh-4.2.0).  However, this is not a packaging error,
IMHO.  /usr/bin/zsh is a *hardlink*, not a *symlink*, and Setup currently
just duplicates the contents of the linked file, rather than creating the
link, which is quite acceptable and doesn't cause any problems.  What
zzapper experienced, I think, is a result of either improper
de/installation or that he'd setup a symlink locally and setup didn't
remove it before plopping down the new image.  Either way, I don't
considder it a packaging error.

The second issue is with the postinstall script, below.  There *are*
errors, but minor ones, at that.  I've already corrected it and will be
uploading a new version RSN.

> And right you are:
>
> $ cat /etc/postinstall/zsh.sh.done
> #!/bin/sh
> V=4.1.1
> ^^^^^^^
> Should be 4.2.0
>
> prefix=/usr
> infodir=${prefix}/share/info
>
> [snip]
>
> # Install default zprofile if needed
> if [ ! -f /etc/zprofile ]; then
>   echo "Installing default /etc/zprofile"
>   install -c -m 755 /usr/doc/zsh-$V/StartupFiles/zprofile
>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Should be /usr/share/doc
>  [snip]

-- 
Peter A. Castro <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org> or <Peter DOT Castro AT oracle DOT com>
	"Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood

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