On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, John Pearson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 07:58:35AM -0600, Jor-el wrote
> >
>
> Let me answer your questions in reverse:
>
> You don't *really* have a standard Slink install. My guess is that
> somewhere along the line, you must have installed a new dpkg. The slink
> dpkg has its man pages under /usr/man, which is the convention adopted for
> slink; this has chaged for Potato to /usr/share/main, and I'm guessing that
> you either installed a 'potato' version of dpkg, or rebuilt a potato release
> from source. I could be wrong, it may also be that upgrading to the potato
> version of man-db moves your man pages (but then, they all would have
> moved).
>
> The way you fixed it is fine if you anticipate running a 'mixed'
> installation (some slink, some potato) and won't hurt in any event.
> Alternatives would be to downgrade to the Slink version of dpkg (but
> some potato packages, e.g. enlightenment, may require a later version),
> or to build a 'slinkified' version of the dpkg package, modified to
> reflect slink conventions: i.e., use /usr/info, /usr/doc and /usr/man
> in place of /usr/share/info, /usr/share/doc and /usr/share/man (not
> necessarily a complete list, but they are the changes that spring to
> mind).
>
>
> John P.
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Hi,
Thanks for the replies - John and Lindsay.
I think your theories are on target. I recently began exploring
the world of apt-get, and when I did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on stable,
I think one of the packages that got upgraded was dpkg. This was probably
a version that has the new changes. I wish though, that there is a way I
could tell what date and time a current package was installed, so that I
could be sure that this is indeed the cause.
Regards,
Jor-el
Interestingly enough, since subroutine declarations can come anywhere,
you wouldn't have to put BEGIN {} at the beginning, nor END {} at the
end. Interesting, no? I wonder if Henry would like it. :-) --lwall
