On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > I have a small partition that was used in the bo testing period > that, IIRC, is in the status in which the base installation left it. > It contains 18 mb, representing the packages installed from the base > disks. Perl exists in this partition as /usr/bin/perl, but perl does > not show up in /var/lib/dpkg/status or /var/lib/dpkg/available. The > dpkg --get-selections command produces a list of 53 packages, but perl > is not among them. > > Is this status correct? It doesn't seem right that a package > could be installed on a debian system without being known to dpkg.
You're running into a legacy of the hacked perl-base that is installed on the boot disks. The latest perl package actually has a seperate perl-base which should be included on the final hamm boot floppies and dpkg should then know about it. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
