On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 04:54:37AM +1000, Martin Mitchell wrote: > I installed a debian hamm system yesterday and noticed a problem involving > dpkg-perl. After installing the base system from disks, I ran dselect > to install some more packages. On the first installation run however, > dpkg-perl was the first package installed, and it failed because perl > was not yet installed. dpkg-perl was installed first since some other > packages pre-depend on it. Furthermore, the failed installation of > dpkg-perl left dselect in an unusable state until I installed perl > separately with dpkg. > > This is broken, and I believe release-critical, yet the solution isn't > easy. Arguably dselect should ensure dependencies of packages that need > to be pre-depended upon are fulfilled. However I think the simplest > solution would be to make dpkg-perl predepend on perl. Does anyone else > have a view on this?
Wouldn't it be enough to make dpkg-perl predepend on perl-base instead of the whole perl? Or does it need some functionality not provided in perl-base? -- Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
