Re: dist-upgrade and perl

1999-09-22 Thread Petr Cech
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 03:13:51PM -0500 , Stephen R. Gore wrote: > Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > apt-get dist-upgrade' does /not/ upgrade perl from 5.004 to 5.005 > > for the same reason it won't upgrade emacs19 to emacs20. They > > are different packages. The package is perl-5.005_5.005.03 and >

Re: dist-upgrade and perl

1999-09-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Stephen R. Gore" wrote: > Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > apt-get dist-upgrade' does /not/ upgrade perl from 5.004 to 5.005 > > for the same reason it won't upgrade emacs19 to emacs20. They > > are different packages. The package is perl-5.005_5.005.03 and > > not perl_5.005.03, and so the packag

Re: dist-upgrade and perl

1999-09-22 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > apt-get dist-upgrade' does /not/ upgrade perl from 5.004 to 5.005 > for the same reason it won't upgrade emacs19 to emacs20. They > are different packages. The package is perl-5.005_5.005.03 and > not perl_5.005.03, and so the package `name' is perl-5.005 and > not simp

Re: dist-upgrade and perl

1999-09-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Now that you mention it, I did the same thing and got the same result. However, my upgrade worked. apt-get dist-upgrade' does /not/ upgrade perl from 5.004 to 5.005 for the same reason it won't upgrade emacs19 to emacs20. They are different packages. The package is perl-5.005_5.005.03 and not

dist-upgrade and perl

1999-09-22 Thread Stephen R. Gore
I've finally succeeded in getting a working potato box by installing slink base system (using cdrom), but it took 3 tries. I've done this before (the machine I'm using to write this was installed this way), but never had this much trouble. What I discovered was that changing sources.list to point