living with zsh

[Michael Prokop]

* Charles Hallenbeck <chuckh at hhs48.com> wrote:

> For a couple of weeks now I have been using the zsh shell as a 
> substitute for bash. The grml folks rave about it, and in fact I rather 
> like it too, ... until today.

[...]
> So next I changed the symbolic link /bin/sh to point to /bin/zsh instead 
> of /bin/bash, and tried out all of my own scripts, which worked fine. In 
> fact nearly everything  worked fine. One of my audio programs acted up, 
> and the way I was interrupting an in-progress play in the bash 
> environment would not work in the zsh environment. I got that untangled 
> and thought I was out of the woods.

> I am running Debian unstable here, and have encouraged lots of folks to 
> do that rather than hanging back in testing. And my experience has been 
> really good. Until lately. I found a package (I forget which) that 
> failed to upgrade when a "post installation script" failed. So the 
> package was described as "not fully installed or removed."  Interesting.
[...]

Seems you hit the debconf bug:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351031

> How do the grml folks deal with this incompatibility? They use the 
> apt-get mechanism for package handling, right? Is there a configuration 
> tweak that I had not discovered to make it all work? 

"/bin/sh now points to /bin/bash; reason: Debian does not support zsh
as /bin/sh, zsh is used as interactive shell anyway of course"

  -- http://grml.org/files/README-0.7.php

regards,
-mika-
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