Re: problems with perl 5.6 and debconf

2000-12-17 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >version of perl everywhere. That's why it was a hardlink. But the postinst still uses update-alternatives, it just doesn't seem to work. Hmm. Ok, it's not a problem. It does work now and the possibility to switch pe

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 perl-5.6 package.

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
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.** The second observation is that yes, there seemed as of last week few modules for 5.6, most were still 5.005. Storable was an issue f

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 your perl 5.6 is your > defau