Bug 488798

Summary:	make ksh use 'alternatives'
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>
Component:	ksh	Assignee:	Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE <qe-baseos-auto>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.4	CC:	kvolny, rvokal
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	The ksh package now includes 'alternatives' which allows ksh switching with PDKSH. This feature allows users to switch between the ksh-93 and ksh-88 shells and to port ksh-88 scripts to ksh-93.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2009-09-02 09:11:35 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	469297

Description Michal Hlavinka 2009-03-05 19:15:40 UTC

Description of problem:
PDKSH is new package for 5.4. It's going to use alternatives fot switching ksh (ksh93 and ksh88). This will allow customers to use both ksh shells and port ksh88 scripts to ksh93.

Comment 3 Ruediger Landmann 2009-05-19 06:08:06 UTC

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New Contents:
The ksh package now includes 'alternatives' which allows ksh switching with PDKSH. This feature allows users to switch between the ksh-93 and ksh-88 shells and to port ksh-88 scripts to ksh-93.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 09:11:35 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1256.html