[bug-notifications] [alternatives 0004559]: --set does not work

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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4559 
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Reported By:                holzi
Assigned To:                phil
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Project:                    alternatives
Issue ID:                   4559
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     feedback
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Date Submitted:             2010-09-30 15:47 CEST
Last Modified:              2010-10-03 03:36 CEST
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Summary:                    --set does not work
Description: 
during testing the new apache2 package I wanted to change the alternative:

/opt/csw/sbin/alternatives --display httpd
Installed alternatives for httpd are:
/opt/csw/apache2/sbin/httpd httpd /opt/csw/apache2/sbin/httpd.prefork 100
/opt/csw/apache2/sbin/httpd httpd /opt/csw/apache2/sbin/httpd.worker 50


/opt/csw/sbin/alternatives --set httpd /opt/csw/apache2/sbin/httpd.worker

ln: cannot create /etc/opt/etc/alternatives/httpd: No such file or
directory

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 (0008328) bwalton (developer) - 2010-10-03 03:36
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4559#c8328 
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Poked and failed.

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[ verifying class <none> ]
Registering 'httpd' alternative /opt/csw/apache2/sbin/httpd.prefork ...
ERROR: set_link needs 3 arguments
/opt/csw/sbin/alternatives[54]: shift: bad number
Registering 'httpd' alternative /opt/csw/apache2/sbin/httpd.worker ...
ERROR: set_link needs 3 arguments
/opt/csw/sbin/alternatives[54]: shift: bad number

--snip--

It's actually worse now, as before the registration worked, you just
couldn't manually set the preferred link.  :(