On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Tim Ferrell wrote: > I am in the process of upgrading my system to run current with hamm and > had a problem with the libmime-perl pkg relating to the libwww-perl pkg > that prevented both pkgs from configuring. > > First libwww-perl requires libmime-base64-perl which does not exist. I > figured that libmime-perl provided this so I edited it's entry in > /var/lib/dpkg/status to reflect this. > > Then I discovered that libmime-perl depends on libwww-perl (which > depends on libmime-perl) hence running dpkg --pending --configure > segfaulted. I fixed this by removing the libmime-perl's dependancy on > libwww-perl from the status file. > > Was this an error in the libmime-perl pkg, or did I make it work when it > shouldn't have??
Actually it was an assumption bug. There IS a libmime-base64-perl package, it just happens to be stuck in incoming. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
