Lukas Eppler hat gesagt: // Lukas Eppler wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Dirk Bonne wrote: > > > >>>>> "Lukas" == Lukas Eppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Lukas> Hi, When I remove a package, which contains files also > > Lukas> contained in other packages, is it removed? > > > > Lukas> Or, if I remove a file from perl-base, is /usr/bin/perl > > Lukas> still there afterwards, because it's contained in the perl > > Lukas> package? Do I risk perl and dpkg to be unable to run by > > Lukas> removing perl-base? > > > > dpkg will refuse to remove a package if it removal would break another > > installed package (except if you force dpkg) > > Nooooooo... see what happened.... > > io# /etc/init.d/sendmail start > /etc/init.d/sendmail: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or > directory > io# head -3 /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon > #!/usr/bin/perl -- > > $version= '1.4.0.8'; # This line modified by Makefile > io# ls /usr/bin/perl > ls: /usr/bin/perl: No such file or directory > > That was exactly why I asked, to avoid this! > I used dselect, no happy dpkg hacking. grunt. > > perl-base was marked Obsolete. > > --
Had the same problem a while ago. After upgrading perl I remove the "obsolete" old perl via dselect. It turned out that /usr/bin/perl had disappeared after this. But there was a /usr/bin/perl5... I symlinked it to /usr/bin/perl and everything was okay. -- Yours <a href="http://www.koeln-online.de/einblick/";> Frank Barknecht Das Koelner Stadt- und Unimagazin >-------------< </a> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
