Re: perl 5.6 problems

2001-06-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Here is the lasest output of apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. It seems > to be complaining about a Perl script, and will not go through with the > upgrade. This seems serious; how can I fix this? I have tried running > apt-get --reinstall on perl, perl-base and dpkg with no luck. Reinstall deb

Re: perl 5.6 problems

2001-06-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Chris Tillman wrote: > Is this right? perl is not listed as a dependency for apt. I bet the problem is a warning or error from debconf. apt does not use perl. > Would it be reasonable to store and keep up to date a local perl package > backup to fall back on if perl is failing? No, th

Re: perl 5.6 problems

2001-06-14 Thread Chris Tillman
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:21:52PM -0700 or thereabouts, Peter Meilstrup wrote: >> Here is the lasest output of apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. It seems >> to be complaining about a Perl script, and will not go through with the >> upgrade. This seems serious; how can I fix this? I have tried r

Re: perl 5.6 problems

2001-06-14 Thread David J. Roundy
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:21:52PM -0700, Peter Meilstrup wrote: > > Here is the lasest output of apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. It seems > to be complaining about a Perl script, and will not go through with the > upgrade. This seems serious; how can I fix this? I have tried running > apt-get -

Re: perl 5.6 problems

2001-06-14 Thread Frederick V. Heitkamp
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:21:52PM -0700 or thereabouts, Peter Meilstrup wrote: > Here is the lasest output of apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. It seems > to be complaining about a Perl script, and will not go through with the > upgrade. This seems serious; how can I fix this? I have tried runnin

perl 5.6 problems

2001-06-13 Thread Peter Meilstrup
Here is the lasest output of apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. It seems to be complaining about a Perl script, and will not go through with the upgrade. This seems serious; how can I fix this? I have tried running apt-get --reinstall on perl, perl-base and dpkg with no luck. --Peter Reading Pac

[mfl: Re: Perl 5.6 ...]

2001-05-30 Thread Michael Flaig
Sorry, forgotten to post to list ... - Forwarded message from Michael Flaig - Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 18:59:51 +0200 From: Michael Flaig To: "David J. Roundy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Perl 5.6 ... User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;

Re: Perl 5.6 ...

2001-05-30 Thread David J. Roundy
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:58:33AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > huh? Michael's message is a dpkg dependency error, rm -rfing random > directories will change nothing in that regard (unless its > /var/lib/dpkg). It was a dependency error, which I believe arises because dpkg fails on perl-base

Re: Perl 5.6 ...

2001-05-30 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:55:48AM -0700, David J. Roundy wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:46:06PM +0200, Just a friendly Jedi Knight wrote: > > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:21:51AM +0200, Michael Flaig wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I´ve Problems with Perl in Sid ... > > > > > > perl-base can´t b

Re: Perl 5.6 ...

2001-05-30 Thread David J. Roundy
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:46:06PM +0200, Just a friendly Jedi Knight wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:21:51AM +0200, Michael Flaig wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I´ve Problems with Perl in Sid ... > > > > perl-base can´t be installed > > > > perl: Depends: perl-base (= 5.6.1-2) but 5.6.0-21 is in

Re: Perl 5.6 ...

2001-05-30 Thread Just a friendly Jedi Knight
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:21:51AM +0200, Michael Flaig wrote: > Hi! > > I´ve Problems with Perl in Sid ... > > perl-base can´t be installed > > perl: Depends: perl-base (= 5.6.1-2) but 5.6.0-21 is installed > Depends: perl-modules (= 5.6.1-2) but it is not installed > > In i386 ther

Perl 5.6 ...

2001-05-30 Thread Michael Flaig
Hi! I´ve Problems with Perl in Sid ... perl-base can´t be installed perl: Depends: perl-base (= 5.6.1-2) but 5.6.0-21 is installed Depends: perl-modules (= 5.6.1-2) but it is not installed In i386 there are newer packages ... 5.6.1-3) I can´t compile from source because dpkg-dev can

Re: problems with perl 5.6 and debconf

2000-12-17 Thread Georg Bauer
and the possibility to switch perls did help with one problem. At least I know what I changed and so it shouldn't pose a problem, especiall since I am now on 5.6 as was intended. >I would argue that "most" packages are not still 5.005; I have a perl >5.6 system running flawle

Re: problems with perl 5.6 and debconf

2000-12-16 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 03:30:13PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote: > It is? package name? dh-make-perl, if I recall correctly. bye, Georg

Re: problems with perl 5.6 and debconf

2000-12-16 Thread Josh Huber
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 08:57:41PM +0100, Georg Bauer wrote: > Yeah. And guess what? It's in the woody distribution ;-) It is? package name? > Or at least some helper utility to make it much easier to create a > package out of CPAN modules. I didn't check it, had no time up to now. > But sounds

Re: problems with perl 5.6 and debconf

2000-12-16 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:58:17PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote: > CPAN modules would be cool. Since there is a standard way to build > them all (for ex. the perl CPAN module), this would be doable, IMHO. > > has anyone else thought of doing something like this? Yeah. And guess what? It's in the

Re: problems with perl 5.6 and debconf

2000-12-16 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:45:25PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just an observation: > We found ourselves removing and reinstalling debconf > and /var/lib/debconf on every machine. That's not a big > deal **once we figured it out.** I am stupid. I was just missing the

Re: problems with perl 5.6 and debconf

2000-12-16 Thread Josh Huber
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:45:25PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The other observation relates to that: older non-packaged > modules that we'd built from CPAN were causing problems. I've thought for a while that a debian package for building .debs from CPAN modules would be cool. Since there

Re: problems with perl 5.6 and debconf

2000-12-16 Thread cfm
woody is borken regarding perl5.6: most packages are still > 5.005, so 5.6 programs usually won't work since there are not enough > packages for basic tasks. So some programs barf if your perl 5.6 is your > default perl (btw: why is there no alternative system installed on my > machine?

Re: problems with perl 5.6 and debconf

2000-12-16 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 08:08:08PM +, Georg Bauer wrote: > Hi! > > The current woody is borken regarding perl5.6: most packages are still > 5.005, so 5.6 programs usually won't work since there are not enough > packages for basic tasks. So some programs barf if y

problems with perl 5.6 and debconf

2000-12-16 Thread Georg Bauer
Hi! The current woody is borken regarding perl5.6: most packages are still 5.005, so 5.6 programs usually won't work since there are not enough packages for basic tasks. So some programs barf if your perl 5.6 is your default perl (btw: why is there no alternative system installed

Perl 5.6 busted on powerpc [was: Re: Build request: libjcode-perl, libft-perl]

2000-11-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:53:28AM -0800, Pete Lypkie wrote: > > libjcode-perl is architecture "all", and i can install it on my powerpc > machine. have you tried again lately? > > a side-note: > while playing around, i noticed that there was an incorrect symlink in the > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/powe